Bombay Beach director Alma Harel comes to the UK for London Premiere
January 9th, 2012
We are very pleased to announce that Wilton's Music Hall has been chosen as the venue to host the London premiere of Alma Har'els documentary Bombay Beach. The screening will be held at 6.30pm on the 28th January and Alma will be present to take part in a Q&A after the event.
Bombay Beach won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Prize and has garnered other awards and praise across the globe. Here is the films synopsis:
The rusting relic of a failed 1950s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren Californian landscape often seen as a symbol of the failure of the American Dream. A sea in the middle of the Colorado desert. First-time director Alma Har’el visits this poetically fruitful terrain in her distinctive documentary Bombay Beach, and finds there a motley cast including a bipolar seven-year-old, a lovelorn high school football star, and an octogenarian poet-prophet. Together they make up a triptych of American manhood in its decisive moments, populating the Salton Sea’s land of thwarted opportunity.
True to her roots as a photographer, video artist, and music video director, Har’el crafts here an adamantly atypical and artistically innovative film—a dreamlike poem that sets the personal stories of these distinctive yet familiar characters to a stylized amalgam of observational documentary and choreographed dance, with music by Beirut and Bob Dylan, all cast against the atmospheric scenery of the titular ghost town. The result is a moving and surreal documentary experience—an evocative, symbolic portrait of rural America and its inhabitants.
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