
Lee Anne Schmitt explores of California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that necessitated their creation. Sold as a limitless land expansive with free opportunity, California was actually, from its onset, fissured by the interwoven needs of private and public interests. Schmitt's film covers various locations through time, as the major industries of the early 20th century (mining, lumber, oil) give way ... (Full plot summary below)
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Lee Anne Schmitt explores of California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that necessitated their creation. Sold as a limitless land expansive with free opportunity, California was actually, from its onset, fissured by the interwoven needs of private and public interests. Schmitt's film covers various locations through time, as the major industries of the early 20th century (mining, lumber, oil) give way to the military, eventually leading to multinational corporations, and the use of small towns as satellites for growing urban metropolises.
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| Sly FoxKam WilliamsA brilliant, haunting and informative expose' not to be missed and not to be forgotten at awards season! |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA provocative, non-preachy, vital and illuminating documentary with quietly powerful and haunting images. |
| Time OutS. James Snyder[Director] Schmitt wisely allows the images to speak loudest -- a silent, sobering portrait of what happens after the well dries up. |
| Hollywood ReporterEric MonderLee Anne Schmitt's simultaneously haunting and tiresome documentary is like a New Age western with its fond look backward and harsh criticism of the present. |