Bristol Indymedia Presents Radiant City: A Documentary About Suburban Sprawl
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Mon 12 May 2008 // 20:00
(Mon 12th / 8pm / £5/4 but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds)
"Sprawl is eating the planet. Across North America the landscape is being levelled - blasted clean of distinctive features and overlaid with zombie monoculture. Politicians call it growth. Developers call it business. The Moss family call it home." Canadian film-makers Gary Burns and Jim Brown use a variety of cultural references, from Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos, to create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do. A chorus of cultural prophets provide insight into this examination of North American suburbs and what they have become. Cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin transforms drab suburbia into great painterly cloudscapes, mesmerizing rivers of traffic and eerie tableaux of dystopia while the soundtrack features songs from Joey Santiago of The Pixies.
"Sprawl is eating the planet. Across North America the landscape is being levelled - blasted clean of distinctive features and overlaid with zombie monoculture. Politicians call it growth. Developers call it business. The Moss family call it home." Canadian film-makers Gary Burns and Jim Brown use a variety of cultural references, from Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos, to create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do. A chorus of cultural prophets provide insight into this examination of North American suburbs and what they have become. Cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin transforms drab suburbia into great painterly cloudscapes, mesmerizing rivers of traffic and eerie tableaux of dystopia while the soundtrack features songs from Joey Santiago of The Pixies.