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Nov 16, 2016 · “The Illinois Parables,” Deborah Stratman’s hourlong essay film, arrives at just the right moment. A meditation on history and landscape, it has the power both to soothe complicated feelings ...
- Deborah Stratman
An experimental documentary comprised of regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism and resistance, all occurring somewhere in the state of Illinois.
Nov 16, 2016 · An experimental documentary comprised of regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism and resistance, all occurring somewhere in the state of Illinois.
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- Documentary, History
- Deborah Stratman
- 2016-11-16
TOP CRITIC. This accomplished essay film may focus on our state, but Stratman's real concern is state power in the larger sense...Connecting all this are sweeping aerial shots that capture the ...
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- Documentary
- Deborah Stratman
Nov 30, 2016 · ‘The Illinois Parables’: Film Review | Belfort 2016. Director Deborah Stratman’s hourlong film essay 'The Illinois Parables' premiered at Sundance and recently had a theatrical run in New York.
Feb 22, 2016 · Bookended by aerial vistas of the Illinois River, of suburban grids and a corn-colored rural patchwork, the film takes us from the mounds of Cahokia—North America’s most significant pre-Columbian urban settlement, which dated from 600 to 1400—to Buffalo Rock, site of Michael Heizer’s “Effigy Tumuli” (1985), a series of five ...
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman uncovers 11 allegories of exodus in the oft-overlooked landscape of her Midwestern home state in The Illinois Parables. She talks about the politics of place and questions of film form with Erika Balsom.
