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.
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March 1, 2021
1h 26m
6.0
Angelo Madsen
N/A
5
Field of Vision
US
JustFilms / Ford Foundation
US
Tribeca Film Institute
US
Sundance Institute
US
American Documentary
US
Open Society Foundations
US
Catapult Film Fund
US
