Description: A film by Natalie Bookchin. Long Story Short interweaves over a hundred video interviews made with laptops and webcams at food banks, homeless shelters, adult literacy programs, and job training centers in California.
In Long Story Short, over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers in Northern and Southern California discuss their experiences of poverty – why they are poor, how it feels, and what they think should be done. More...
Long Story Short conjures a dizzying multiplicity of frames and voices. Featuring deeply moving, unadorned testimony, it visualizes a collective body with overlapping and intersecting subjectivities, interdependencies, and potential alliances.
March 2 - April, 2018