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North by Current

North by Current Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 01/03/2021
  • Duration : 1 hour 26 minutes
  • Director: Angelo Madsen Minax
  • Production: Field of Vision, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Institute, American Documentary, Open Society Foundations, Catapult Film Fund
  • Country: United States of America
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Overview:

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.

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