Route One/USA

In the irresistible epic ROUTE ONE/USA, Kramer and Doc (Paul McIsaac), both exiles from the USA, join a trek from the beginning of Route 1 in Maine to where it ends in Florida. Doc enters a succession of private worlds, each of which reveals itself to the camera, sometimes in “rehearsed” fashion, suggesting that cameras have been here before (a self-aggrandising community leader in Bridgeport, Connecticut; someone shouting out in front of the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum in St. Augustine, Florida), sometimes in a way more akin to the creation of a hard, unfamiliar time capsule (a member of the Penobscot Nation in Maine going back over her life). The idea of rebellion forms the film’s central thread: the rebellion of the colonists against Britain, of the South against the North, of children against their parents. The themes of parents and children, of history, legacies, memory, are linked in turn to cinema and to photography. Kramer floods us with things, conversations, information, but his gliding images also make the longing for distance, for transcendence explicit. (Chris Fujiwara)

All retrospective films that will be shown at the Filmmuseum after the Viennale - from 30.10. - can of course also be reserved as usual at filmmuseum.at or by calling 01/533 70 54 and purchased at the box office of the Austrian Film Museum. The prices of the Austrian Film Museum apply.

Robert Kramer (selection): IN THE COUNTRY (1967), THE EDGE (1968), ICE (1969), MILESTONES (1975), SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN PORTUGAL (1977), GUNS (1980), NOTRE NAZI (1984), DOC'S KINGDOM (1987), X-COUNTRY. BEING A WEDDING BETWEEN US AND THE FARABUNDO MARTÍ LIBERATION FRONT IN PRESIDENT MONROE’S OLD HOUSE (1987/2022), ROUTE ONE/USA (1989), VIDÉOLETTRES ROBERT KRAMER / STEPHEN DWOSKIN (1991), WALK THE WALK (1996), CITÉS DE LA PLAINE (2000)