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American Dust

Direction
Year 
2011
Country
  • France
Duration
100min 
Audio Tracks 

“This is a logbook. A film which has been improvised. A poem that is slightly too long and made from other films parts, bits of sentences, pieces of music and sounds from all around. It was written in the language of cinema, without dialogue or commentary. It is both a silent movie and a wordy one as it relates many stories, twenty or so, short, minor and forming what is called History with a capital H when put together. It is about America and, therefore, about us. Pieces of everybody’s lives put together. A child, his father, his mother, the rabbit, the dog, the flowers, your childhood, mine, ours. Native Americans, Christopher Columbus, Apollo, the moon. Each character says I. It is both anybody’s diary and everybody’s autobiography...” This is how des Pallières has described his last opus, whose modus operandi is somewhat reminiscent of the one used in Diane Wellington (2010): some editing of anonymous footage for the purposes of collective stories, with the aim of first developing a rare blend of sensations and emotions before gathering some knowledge. Gertrude Stein – who is depicted in ‘Portrait Incomplet’ – is behind all this. Her presence is mainly noticeable through that particular art of bringing things together into a fragile monument constantly threatening to collapse, dragging us down blissfully.

Jean-Pierre Rehm

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Details

  • Original title
    Poussières d'Amérique
  • Direction
  • Editing
    Arnaud des Pallières
  • Music
    Martin Wheeler
  • Sound
    Jean Mallet
  • Duration
    100 min (91+ min.)
  • Year
    2011
  • Country
    • France

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