Ghosts and Gravel Roads (2008)

Directed by

Mike Rollo

Country

Canada

Runtime

16 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short documentary that shows abandoned farm buildings in rural Saskatchewan. A hand pins up old photographs to suggest who might have once lived or worked there.

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What happens

Ghosts and Gravel Roads is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Mike Rollo and released in 2008. The film depicts various abandoned farm buildings in rural Saskatchewan, with a hand pinning up archival photographs suggestive of the people who might once have lived or worked there. Rollo is a film production professor at the University of Regina, and makes experimental documentary films exploring "alternative approaches to documentary cinema – methods which thematize vanishing cultures and transitional spaces." The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2008, and was the winner of the Silver Mikeldi at the 2008 Zinebi - Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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