About Empty Quarter
- Year Released:
- 2011
- Genres:
- Documentary, Experimental
- Metadata:
- Directed by Alain LeTourneau, Pam Minty
Eschewing traditional forms of documentary cinema, Empty
Quarter deploys a long-take style reminiscent of the works of
James Benning and Sharon Lockhart to depict the politicized
landscape of the sparsely populated “empty quarter” of
Southeast Oregon. By presenting the audience with images
and stories of the industries, laborers, landscapes, and
social lives that make up this region, the filmmakers craft
a surprisingly accessible and subtly political portrait that
calls on audiences to develop their own ideas about the
relationships of people to land and of labor to industry.
(16mm presentation)
Directors Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty are scheduled to
be present.
