HSDFF 2009 Film List

A meditation on the milieu of “elevated threat” which addresses national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patriotism and the possibility of personal transcendence. This film is concerned with the sudden, simple, thorough ways that events can separate us from the system of things, and place us in a kind of limbo.  Like when we fall. Or cross a border. Or get shot. Or saved. The film forces together culturally acceptable icons of heroic national tradition with the suggestion of unacceptable historical consequences, so that seemingly benign locations become zones of moral angst.
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