Ghosts and Gravel Roads (2008)
- Directed by
- Mike Rollo
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 16 min
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
meditativemelancholicslow-pacednostalgicquietcontemplativehauntingatmospheric
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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