Robert Kramer
In The Country (vol. 1)
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray, DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm, Hi8 video
Year 1966-1992
Language(s) English, French
Artist(s) Robert Kramer
Subtitles French, English, German, Italian
Booklet 60 pages (French, English)
Running time 140 min
Films
IN THE COUNTRY (1966) 62'
VIDÉO-LETTRES (1992) 56'
TROUBLEMAKERS (1965) 52'
Description
In 1966, Robert Kramer made his first feature-length fiction film in the United States, In the Country, outside all production circuits and with the political companions who had just filmed him in the documentary Troublemakers. In the Country is the reverse shot of Troublemakers: the documentary shows the action (community organizing, militant mobilization) that the fiction leaves off-screen to focus on the crisis of a couple where the man fails to set aside, for a few days, the obsessions of commitment. Twenty-five years later, the Vidéolettres exchanged with Stephen Dwoskin replay this melancholy and lyricism of separation in free mosaics.
"In the Country is the place where you make contact with the other rhythms of things, absolutely non-political, eternal. The woman is its guardian: a wise woman, who can appear in many forms, but who knows a lot about seeking a harmonious relationship between your own needs and those of others. Another form of logic."
— Robert Kramer