North by Current

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

86 minutes

Year:

2021

Director:

Angelo Madsen Minax

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Company:

Field of Vision,

JustFilms / Ford Foundation,

Tribeca Film Institute,

Sundance Institute,

American Documentary,

Open Society Foundations,

Catapult Film Fund

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