A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
April 19, 2019
Original Title:
Field Resistance
Genres:
Documentary | Science Fiction
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 16
Charging scenes of the present with dystopian speculation, "Field Resistance" blurs the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and science fiction to investigate overlooked environmental devastation in the overlooked state of Iowa. Footage collected from disparate locations—a university herbarium, karst sinkholes inhabited by primordial flora and fauna, a telecommunication tower job site, a decaying grain silo, among others—interlocks to evoke a narrative of present danger and future disaster, of plant expansion and humanity's retreat. The film rejects the human individual as the focus of narrative cinema, and, instead, adopts the perspective of a symbiotic "implosive whole" in which human and nonhumans are related in an overlapping, non-total way.
Director:
Emily Drummer
Director of Photography:
Emily Drummer
Editor:
Emily Drummer
Producer:
Emily Drummer
Sound:
Emily Drummer
Sound Designer:
Philip Rabalais
Visual Effects:
Peder Goodman
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