28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE - PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE

MINONG, I SLEPT

MINONG, I SLEPT
by Vera Brunner-Sung
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Duration: 5'


minong, i slept

 

On the remote wilderness island called Minong (Isle Royale), remains of human industry are absorbed into the forest and shoreline. An inquiry into the push and pull between people and nature, land and sea, intimacy and vastness.

 

“For two weeks my reality was the rocky, forested outcroppings of this remote wilderness island, and the powerful surrounding. With my camera I explored the island, seeking out the physical remains of its histories: copper mining, fishing, tourism, the national park. In the mean time, I slept and dreamt and fetched water from the lake. I liked this idea of the lake as an imaginary space, and the island as its incarnation, a record of human endeavor. I inhabited both worlds: by day a tenuous borderland, where fragments of civilization interrupted the forest and shoreline; by night, the intense vistas and vivid narrative of a dream space, brilliant and alive in ways I had not experienced in years. The island and the lake became metaphors for exploration.”

Biography

film director

Vera Brunner-Sung

Vera Brunner-Sung, originally from the Midwest, studied public policy and visual arts before attending the California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video. Her first two shorts, Longshore, from 2004, and Untitled (Perlman Pl.), which she made in 2006, focused her research on the neighbourhood, on the concept of the house as divided between privacy and community. The topic of urban development was the theme of her 2007 film, The Garden City, which screened at numerous international festivals like the Images Festival of Toronto and the $100 Film Festival in Calgary. She teaches in Los Angeles and collaborates with the online journal “Senses of Cinema.”

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography

Longshore (cm, doc., 2004), Some of My Friends (cm, doc., 2005), Untitled (Perlman Pl.) (cm, doc., 2006), The Garden City (cm, doc., 2007), Hard Stares & Broken Mirrors (cm, doc., 2007), Common Ground (cm, doc., 2008), Minong, I slept (cm, doc., 2010).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer

Vera Brunner-Sung

produzione/production

Isle Royal National Park Artist-in-Residence Program

 

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