Robert Kramer
Doc's Kingdom (vol.8)
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray, DVD Interzone
Format 16mm
Year 1977-1988
Language(s) English, Portuguese
Artist(s) Robert Kramer
Subtitles English, French
Booklet 52 pages
Running time 189 min
Films
DOC'S KINGDOM (1988) 93'
SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN PORTUGAL (1977) 96'
Description
Starting in 1975 with the Carnation Revolution, Robert Kramer forged a powerful political and cinematic bond with Portugal, expressed through four successive works: With Freedom in Their Eyes (1976), a photography book taken in Angola as the country freed itself from Portuguese colonization and fell into civil war; the militant documentary Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977), which takes stock of the revolution; Wim Wenders' L'Etat des choses (1982), produced by the Portuguese Paolo Branco, shot in Sintra, and for which Kramer co-wrote the screenplay; Doc's Kingdom (1988), produced by the same Paolo Branco, in which the character of Doc, born in Ice in 1969, drifts melancholically along the docks of Porto before returning to the United States two years later in Route One/USA.
"I've been living and filming abroad since 1979. Of my last eight films, Doc's Kingdom is the first I was able to shoot in English. It's also the first that returns to my material: the United States, a home, your country, what you're inevitably part of and what you're forever exterior to."
— Robert Kramer