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Lyrical, striking, quirky, charming and eccentric; video artist and photographer Alma Har’el’s debut feature BOMBAY BEACH is a tender, often funny and sometimes heartbreaking portrait of the idiosyncratic residents of California’s Salton Sea.
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. Winner of the Tribeca film festival doc competition.
January 24th, 2013
Win a copy of the films poster to celebrate the film's nomination!
March 28th, 2012
With the film now out on DVD we have a poster signed by the director to be won
February 29th, 2012
Take a look at our March home entertainment slate
February 3rd, 2012
Bombay Beach will be screening across the UK on 7th February
January 30th, 2012
Bombay Beach went down a storm at Wilton's Music Hall
January 9th, 2012
Wilton's Music Hall will host this screening on January 28th
January 3rd, 2012
We look back at 2011's highlights, and forward to our upcoming slate of 2012 documentary releases.
November 30th, 2011
Four dogwoof titles have been nominated for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Film Awards.
October 27th, 2011
5 Dogwoof films are nominated for the annual awards
September 7th, 2011
5 Dogwoof films will screen as part of the 2011 Cambridge Film Festival
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