This American Gothic 63:00 | video | 2008 A picture about a picture
and the town that inspired it.
Using interviews, direct cinema, animation and
moving image portraiture, This American Gothic meditates upon observation, representation and
self-presentation in painting, photography, history and the documentary impulse itself.
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Room 135 features information about Sasha Waters Freyer, an award-winning non-fiction filmmaker whose documentary and experimental films have screened widely in the U.S. and abroad.
The Santa Fe New Mexican wrote; "In the spirit of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris who gave us Gates of Heaven in 1978 comes This American Gothic. Like Morris, Waters Freyer has captured with humor, local dialogue, and credible references the persona of small-town America."
This American Gothic trailer 4:30 | video | 2008
Winner of a Silver Eddy Award in Documentary from the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival, April 2009.
Winner of the 2008 President's Award from the
American West Center at the University of Utah.
