With this year’s True/False Film Festival officially in our rearview mirror and the Art Of The Real festival set to commence in New York City, the very best and most challenging pictures in the world of non-fiction cinema are on the collective tip of the film world’s tongue. And thankfully, one of these documentaries that is both genuinely superlative and also defiantly testing just what it means to be a “documentary” is arriving in theaters.
Entitled Above and Below, director Nicolas Steiner goes off the grid with his subjects, five people who are on the outermost reaches of American society. Taking a poetically surreal look into the lives of people ranging from a couple living in a Las Vegas drainage tunnel to a man living in an abandoned military bunker in the California desert, Steiner’s film feels as much influenced by the nonfiction tradition as it...
Entitled Above and Below, director Nicolas Steiner goes off the grid with his subjects, five people who are on the outermost reaches of American society. Taking a poetically surreal look into the lives of people ranging from a couple living in a Las Vegas drainage tunnel to a man living in an abandoned military bunker in the California desert, Steiner’s film feels as much influenced by the nonfiction tradition as it...
- 4/16/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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