28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE - PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE
SHRIMP CHICKEN FISH
by Deborah Stratman
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Duration: 5'
shrimp chicken fish The Calumet Fisheries, originally glimpsed in the background of a scene from The Blues Brothers, still operates. The old restaurant, propped along the edge of a drawbridge, has become a real-world portal to a cinematic past. An homage to Chicago’s East 95th Street Bridge, Calumet Fisheries, now framed by the towering Chicago Skyway and the industrial Calumet Harbor and to a couple of the city’s infamous brothers. “I think teaching is just the only job that experimental filmmakers are going to get. Some degree what I try to do, maybe not in every film, is to lay out an argument and give people the piece of the puzzle that they then have to go home and put together. A few of my films operate in that way, where I can’t quite get my head around something, and so I make a film about it.”
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).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio, suono, produttore/director, film editing, sound, producer
Deborah Stratman
vendita all’estero/world sales
Pythagoras film
