The Film Group Screening 1
When: Thursday 17 October at 7.30 pm
Where: "Archies"
Archway 4, Jubilee Park Oval
Chapman Road
Annandale/Glebe NSW 2038
Admission: FREE
Landscape I: LINEFORK (2016) by Vic Rawlings and Jeff Daniel Silva.
An immersive meditation on the passage of time and the persistent resonance of place, Linefork follows the daily rituals of an elderly couple living in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains. Now well into his eighties, Lee Sexton is the last living link to the distant past of a regional American music. A retired coal miner with black lung, Lee and his wife, Opal, continue to farm the land where he was born. Together they face encroaching health concerns and stark economic realities. Recorded over three years, Linefork is an observational film documenting their marriage, their community, their resilience, and the raw yet delicate music of an unheralded banjo legend, linked to the past yet immediately present. For more information click here to go to the film's website
“...a gentle and conscientious ethnography that borders on both home movie and art film...It presents a graceful portrait of a couple whose lives are, above all, oriented toward each other...This depiction of being-with-each-other is not romanticized, yet it permeates the film." — Sander Hölsgens, Cultural Anthropology
“The film’s power derives from the same thing that made the first moving pictures so mesmerizing: the spectacle of life passing before your eyes, in all its tedium and strangeness, including the strangeness of life drawing to its end.” — Peter Trachtenberg, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Exquisite...each shot so absorbing, I watched the whole thing with a kind of suspense." — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Oxford American
Where: "Archies"
Archway 4, Jubilee Park Oval
Chapman Road
Annandale/Glebe NSW 2038
Admission: FREE
Landscape I: LINEFORK (2016) by Vic Rawlings and Jeff Daniel Silva.
An immersive meditation on the passage of time and the persistent resonance of place, Linefork follows the daily rituals of an elderly couple living in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains. Now well into his eighties, Lee Sexton is the last living link to the distant past of a regional American music. A retired coal miner with black lung, Lee and his wife, Opal, continue to farm the land where he was born. Together they face encroaching health concerns and stark economic realities. Recorded over three years, Linefork is an observational film documenting their marriage, their community, their resilience, and the raw yet delicate music of an unheralded banjo legend, linked to the past yet immediately present. For more information click here to go to the film's website
“...a gentle and conscientious ethnography that borders on both home movie and art film...It presents a graceful portrait of a couple whose lives are, above all, oriented toward each other...This depiction of being-with-each-other is not romanticized, yet it permeates the film." — Sander Hölsgens, Cultural Anthropology
“The film’s power derives from the same thing that made the first moving pictures so mesmerizing: the spectacle of life passing before your eyes, in all its tedium and strangeness, including the strangeness of life drawing to its end.” — Peter Trachtenberg, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Exquisite...each shot so absorbing, I watched the whole thing with a kind of suspense." — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Oxford American
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