Blues. Portrait de Frank Butler, un personnage haut en couleurs qui vit dans une petite ville sur le déclin quelque part en Amérique. Son histoire se dévoile petit à petit, tel un lointain message abandonné sur un répondeur. Tourné en 16mm noir et blanc il y a plus de 25 ans, les images, et l’histoire, ont été revisitées par l’auteur.

Dead people is a portrait of Frank Butler, a local character in an economically depressed small town somewhere in America. Frank’s story unfolds slowly, like a lonely message on an answering machine –nearly indecipherable, and yet unique. Shot in gritty black and white 16mm film more than 25 years ago, the filmmaker has since revisited the footage, and his approach to telling Frank’s story. This is perhaps the closest film gets to the blues.

• Scénario / Screenplay : Roger DEUTSCH
• Image / Dir. of photography : Ed PINNEY
• Montage / Editor : Roger DEUTSCH
• Son / Sound : Roger DEUTSCH
• Interprètes / Actors : J. Frank BUTLER

• PRODUCTION / DISTRIBUTION :
  • Autoproduction – roger[@]ottofilms.org
    

Programmation dans d’autres festivals : - San Francisco Art Institute Film/Video Festival - Black Maria Film Festival - Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival - Iowa City Documentary Film Festival - Full Frame Documentary Film Festival - bATik Film Festival, Italie - Cinema Texas - Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin - Raindance Film Festival, Londres - Ann Arbor Film Festival - Annapolis Reel Cinema - TIE, Denver - Imaginaria, Italie - Chicago Underground Film Festival - Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, Canada - Plymouth Independent Film Festival - Rooftop Films, New York - Other Cinema, San Francisco - Siren International Film Odyssey, Ithaca, USA - James River Film Festival, Richmond, USA - Maryland Film Festival

Filmographie : - Flower songs, 2006 - Some call it home, 1974/2006 - Round trip, 1988/2003/2006 - First love, 1974/2006 - Mario makes a movie, 1987/2004 - Voices from an island, 2004 - Blue is the color, 2004 - Meditations on don’t, 1986/2004 - Sancti Spiritus, 2003 - Sister smile, 2002 - Deceit, 1999 - The view from Avenue A., 1985 - Jews, 1984 - Blank generation, 1979