Athens International Film Festival
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The Great Flood

Without using any dialogue, exclusively drawing on found footage of the period - often in an advanced state of decay - the maestro of avant garde filmmaking uses a tragic incident as an excuse to create a beautiful, otherworldly spectacle.

In Spring 1927, the overflow of the Mississippi river lead to one of the most disastrous floods in US history. It leveled countless acres of land, people lost their fortunes, a large percentage of the population had to move away and it has a cataclysmic effect on the geopolitical and cultural landscape of the American heartland.

Without using any dialogue, exclusively drawing on found footage of the period - often in an advanced state of decay - the maestro of avant garde filmmaking uses this tragic incident as an excuse to create a beautiful, otherworldly spectacle. He conspires with jazz guitarist Bill Frisell for an original soundtrack that deeply influenced the end result, which is nothing less than a audiovisual initiation to their own mystical doctrine. L.K.


the great flood / η μεγάλη πλημμύρα - trailer από NyxtesPremieras

Πρωτότυπος τίτλος / Original title: The Great Flood

Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Bill Morrison

Μουσική / Music: Bill Frisell

Μοντάζ / Editor: Bill Morrison

ΗΠΑ / USA
2012
Ασπρόμαυρο / B&W
80'
Αγγλικά / English

* Screens on 19th September and 21st September



    Publication date: 2013-09-11 12:30:00