Country: USA
Year: 2007
Duration: 20'
New Orleans after Katrina has struck. The Afro-American MacArthur lives in a refugee camp. His savings have been stolen and he tries to make ends meet by cleaning and fixing up the house of a white man with his cousin Natt. Surrounded by the physical and moral ruins of the catastrophe, ethics are in shaky balance, on the point of tipping over into the madness of misery. Rage and tragedy loom… “The film asks what we are capable of when survival turns morality on its head.”
Biography
film director
John Magary
John Magary (Dallas, TX, USA) studied at Williams College and Columbia University, and debuted in directing in 2003 with the short What’s It Like There? His next two movies, Our National Parks (2006) and The Second Line (2007), were selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Waves section of the Torino Film Festival, respectively. As an essayist, he received a Grand Marnier Film Fellowship for his essay Shock to the System: Adolfo Aristarain’s Time for Revenge (2003), which was later published in “Film Comment Magazine.” Even though The Mend (2014) marked his debut in feature films, “Filmmaker Magazine” included Magary on its list of the twenty-five new indie directors to keep an eye on.
FILMOGRAFIA
What’s It Like There? (cm, 2003), Site in Fishkill Creek (cm, 2004), We Are All Guerrillas (cm, 2005), Our National Parks (cm, 2006), The Second Line (cm, 2007), The Mend (2014).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editor John Magary
fotografia/director of photography Chris Teague
scenografia/set design Mara LePere-Schloop
musica/music Kai Gross
suono/sound Paul Bercovitch
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Al Thompson (MacArthur), J.D. Williams (Natt), Dane Rhodes (Henry Delano), Karen Pritchett (Bernie Delano), Saida Arrika Ekulona (la mamma di MacArthur/MacArthur’s mom), Brittany Parker (Jamiqua)
produttore/producer Geoffrey Quan
produzione/production Original Villager Production
coproduttore/coproducer Myna Joseph, Nelson Kim
fotografia/director of photography Chris Teague
scenografia/set design Mara LePere-Schloop
musica/music Kai Gross
suono/sound Paul Bercovitch
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Al Thompson (MacArthur), J.D. Williams (Natt), Dane Rhodes (Henry Delano), Karen Pritchett (Bernie Delano), Saida Arrika Ekulona (la mamma di MacArthur/MacArthur’s mom), Brittany Parker (Jamiqua)
produttore/producer Geoffrey Quan
produzione/production Original Villager Production
coproduttore/coproducer Myna Joseph, Nelson Kim