Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
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The first part of what was intended to be a three-part experimental travelog for Nelson’s home state of California, this film covers the Mexican border, Death Valley, and Hollywood/Los Angeles.
A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The film is based on a series of portraits of American artists, all of whom belong to a young and politicized generation, presented in static tableaus from...
“In their starkly minimal film, The Awful Backlash, directors Robert Nelson and William Allan, focus solely on a pair of hands as they begin to unravel what appears to be a tangled fishing line. Any further evidence of the title’s confusing ‘awfulness’ – other than the literal...
