Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 15'
The frenzied
detritus of trading floors, smart weaponry and the religious right are
woven through the petrochemical landscapes of Southeast Texas. This
short video harangue questions land use policy as it serves oil
industry, patriotism as it absolves foreign aggression and
fundamentalism as it calcifies thinking.
Biography
film director
Deborah Stratman
Deborah Stratman lives and works in Chicago, where she teaches at the University of Illinois. Her works alternate the use of 16mm film, digital and video, and have been featured at world-famous museums, such as MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and have been screened at internationally important events, including Sundance, the Viennale, Cph/Dox, the Oberhausen Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival. At the 2009 Torino Film Festival she presented the medium-length O’er the Land and the following year, the short Shrimp Chicken Fish.
FILMOGRAFIA
My Alchemy (cm, 1990), Upon a Time (cm, 1991), A Letter (cm, 1992), Possibilities, Dilemmas (cm, 1992), The Train from LA to LA (cm, 1992), Palimpsest (cm, 1993), Walking (cm, 1994), Iolanthe (cm, 1995), On the Various Nature of Things (cm, 1995), From Hetty to Nancy (cm, 1997), The BLVD (mm, 1999), Untied (cm, 2001), In Order Not to Be Here (cm, 2002), Energy Country (cm, 2003), Kings of the Sky (mm, 2004), How Among the Frozen Words (cm, 2005), It Will Die Out in the Mind (cm, 2006), The Magician’s House (cm, 2007), Butter and Tomatoes (cm, 2008), The Memory (cm, 2008), Kuyenda N’Kubvina (cm, 2010), FF (cm, 2010), Ray’s Birds (cm, 2010), …These Blazering Starrs! (cm, 2011), Village, Silenced (cm, 2011), The Name Is Not the Thing Named (cm, 2012), Musical Insects (cm, 2013), Immortal, Suspended (cm, 2013), Second Sighted (cm, 2014).