Something to Do with the Wall
Ross McElwee, Marilyn Levine
Country
United States
Year
2001
Running time
90 min
Language
English, German
Subtitles
Catalan
Image
Colour
Format
Digital
Synopsis
“A meditation on the absurd vagaries of history: growing up in 1950s America, Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine were brought up on a steady diet of Cold War paranoia. So were the West Germans they began filming in 1986. But as the Berlin Wall came down three years later and hard-line Communism collapsed with it, the filmmakers and their subjects were suddenly faced with a new world order” (MoMA).
An exploration of the presence of collective history in the lives of individuals while everything around them changes over and over again.
Production
Ross McElwee, Marilyn Levine
Screenplay
Ross McElwee, Marilyn Levine
Photography
Ross McElwee, Marilyn Levine
Editor
Ross McElwee, Marilyn Levine
Sound
Ross McElwee, Marilyn Levine, Richard Bock