Release
MovieTitle | Release |
User score | 6.5 |
Release date | Oct 26, 2010 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Bill Morrison |
Production country | United States of America |
Run time | 13 min. |
On March 17, 1930, a crowd assembled outside Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary in hopes of witnessing Al Capone's release from prison. Morrison and Vijay Iyer turn a single archival panning shot of that scene - origianally filmed in 1930 by Jack Painter - and its accompanying audio track - recorded in 1930 by Addison Tice -- into a split-screen surround sound panoramic film that continually doubles back on itself, creating a short cinematic meditation on the nature of spectacle and spectatorship.