Robert Kramer
Route One/USA (vol. 7)
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Add rightsFormat 3 x DVD9 Interzone
Original format 35mm, 16mm, Super8
Year 1966-1992
Language(s) English, French
Artist(s) Robert Kramer
Subtitles French, English
Booklet 62 pages (French, English)
Running time 435 min
Films
ROUTE ONE / USA (1966) 255'
X-COUNTRY (1992) 144'
DEAR DOC (1965) 36'
Description
Shot over five months in 1987 and 1988, from north to south along the East Coast, Route One / USA (1989) offers a broad geographical cross-section of a specific era in American history, and a nostalgic journey through a country that Robert Kramer, as an American, had never observed with such attention. In the company of his fictional alter ego, Doc, the physician, the filmmaker observes people and landscapes with the care and concern of a traveling doctor. Route One / USA is also a magnificent combination, set to the music of Barre Philips, of a shooting method Kramer had developed a few weeks earlier in the little-known X-Country (1987) and an editing technique he would refine the following year in the video-letter Dear Doc (1990).
"Route One / USA is the result of a deliberate choice to return to the scene of the crime. What's interesting about this film—as different as it is from Milestones, even in the way it was shot—is that in Milestones, we were able to travel across the entire country without ever speaking to anyone who wasn't part of our crew. Route One / USA is exactly the opposite: we were there to talk, to listen, and to learn."
— Robert Kramer