Login
Associated (2006)
Brooklyn, 4 July 2004. Jenny Perlin spends her entire Independence Day filming her neighbourhood supermarket. Although the front of the building is dilapidated and the sign is so old you can barely read it, this shop has everything a larger supermarket has, "and sometimes even more," according to its proud owner Mr. Leem. He and his brother work 14-hour days in the supermarket. In an off-screen interview, he tells about the shop's history and about his favourite music: Johnny Cash and Najwa Karam. Every two hours, Perlin grabbed her 16 mm Bolex camera to shoot two and a half minutes of film (the time it takes for the spool to unwind). This "arbitrary" style of filmmaking emphasises not the action, but the rhythm. The beauty of the shop is not in the extraordinary events taking place there, but in the fixed patterns of plodding and rummaging.
Updated Jun 1 2020
Releases:
More Releases
Crew
If you liked this then you may like:
126143
126144
126326
126460
126782
126929
126996
127515
127905
127962
128100
128122
128140
128190
128216
128897
129110
130515
130612
130750
130796
130993
131442
131809
132352
132812
132912
132915
133202
133439
133741
133761
136530
136715
138543
138891
139327
139578
139948
140448
140478
142307
142600
144390
145297
146328
147698
147923
149335
149394