North By Current, 2021
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A family death spurs a first-person study on the nature of grief, time, and origins.
Synopsis
“North By Current” is a visual rumination on the understated relationships between mothers and children, truths and myths, losses and gains. After the inconclusive death of his young niece, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown prepared to make a film about a broken criminal justice system. Instead, he pivots to excavate the depths of generational addiction, Christian fervor, and trans embodiment. Like the relentless Michigan seasons, the meaning of family shifts, as Madsen, his sister, and his parents strive tirelessly to accept each other.
The project is supported by the Sundance Institute, the Tribeca Film Institute, the LEF Moving Image Foundation, the Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists, the Frameline Completion Fund, Wave Farm, the Vermont Arts Council, and others. Learn more about NORTH BY CURRENT here.
Director/Producer: Angelo Madsen Minax
Producer: Felix Endara
Executive Producers: Charlotte Cook, Justine Nagan, Chris White
A co-production of Field of Vision and POV|American Documentary
Total Run Time: 86 minutes
4k, 2k, HD, VHS
Documentary/Essay Film
A family death spurs a first-person study on the nature of grief, time, and origins.
Synopsis
“North By Current” is a visual rumination on the understated relationships between mothers and children, truths and myths, losses and gains. After the inconclusive death of his young niece, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown prepared to make a film about a broken criminal justice system. Instead, he pivots to excavate the depths of generational addiction, Christian fervor, and trans embodiment. Like the relentless Michigan seasons, the meaning of family shifts, as Madsen, his sister, and his parents strive tirelessly to accept each other.
The project is supported by the Sundance Institute, the Tribeca Film Institute, the LEF Moving Image Foundation, the Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artists, the Frameline Completion Fund, Wave Farm, the Vermont Arts Council, and others. Learn more about NORTH BY CURRENT here.
Director/Producer: Angelo Madsen Minax
Producer: Felix Endara
Executive Producers: Charlotte Cook, Justine Nagan, Chris White
A co-production of Field of Vision and POV|American Documentary
Total Run Time: 86 minutes
4k, 2k, HD, VHS
Documentary/Essay Film
Screenings:
AFI DOCS, Washington D.C.: June 22-27, 2021
Frameline International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco, CA: June 17-27, 2021
Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY: June 9-20, 2021, North American Premiere
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK: June 4-13, 2021
Krakow Film Festival, Krakow, Poland: May 30-June 5, 2021
Berlinale: Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany: March 1-5 Online & June 13-20 IRL, World Premiere
Criterion
"...Macro ideas become shatteringly micro, turning a specific portrait of a specific American town into a breathless evocation for an entire class of Americans lost in the periphery...
...A titanic work." -- Joshua Brunsting
Layered Losses, BOMB Magazine
"Art-making becomes a tool for repair." -- Megan Milks
An Over Anti-Patriarchal, Anti-Assimilationist Gesture, Filmmaker Magazine
"This steadfast withholding of answers allows us to discover deeper ones within ourselves." -- Lauren Wissot
Unseen Films
"...I can tell you everything about what you see, but it will not remotely be like what it's like to see the film.
Since the act of watching the film is a personal experience, there is little more I can say other than: see it... One of the best films you will see in 2021." -- Steve Kopian
In Review
"...the film finds comfort in acknowledging the many wonders and curiosities that our lives, in their successions of beginnings and ends, still have to offer."-- Nicholas Yap
MovieMarker UK
"...A wildly ambitious diegesis on faith, gender, criminal justice, collective memory, and artistic license,
brought about by a journey home in the face of family tragedy, is nothing short of extraordinary." -- Jordan King
North By Current is a project made possible by the following organizations
