American Journal (2023)
• November 22nd, 2023 • 1h 52min
Documentary
Overview
A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie from the 20th century”, invites us to meditate on what Des Pallières once liked to call “our old homeland”.
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