Test Site: North American Desert Culture ( Test Site (North American Desert Culture) )

Test Site: North American Desert Culture (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Test Site (North American Desert Culture)
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
56 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Jesper Wachtmeister

Written By:
Jesper Wachtmeister

Actors:
Glenn Campbell ..... Himself
Richard Corsano ..... Himself
Pat Dingle ..... Himself
William L. Fox ..... Himself
Bobby Furst ..... Himself
Johnny Hilliard ..... Himself
Mario Lalli ..... Himself
Pat Laudenklos ..... Herself
Katie Lee ..... Herself
James Mooney ..... Himself
David Nichols ..... Himself
Karen Reynolds ..... Herself
Tony Tornay ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Test Site is a documentary about the people, activities and myths of the North American Desert. A film about what goes on in the outskirts of civilization - where freedom is given, and taken, to express and experiment in ways not permitted in the urban world. Temporary communities, artistic experimentation, nuclear tests, musical- and spiritual exercises where noise, size and laws don't matter. A place that permits experiments of all kinds. Speed, art, science, weapons, music, religion, and law - it s all going through the test here. We meet folksinger Katie Lee, medicine man James "Flaming Eagle" Mooney, archaeologist David Nichols, Karen "dezert nymph" Reynolds, ex-homicide detective Pat Dingle, writer William L. Fox, Area 51 expert Glenn Campbell, bar owner Pat Laudenklos, artist Bobby Furst, desert rave organizer Willy, musicians Tony Tornay and Mario Lalli, drummer Johnny "Sticks" Hilliard and poet Richard Corsano. A film that will make you question our modern comforts and rules, and what we consider to be a normal life.

Deserts are harsh, forbidding places, yet they are also the birthplace of the world's dominant religions, blank slates where countless novels and screenplays come to life, and vast expanses to test the limits of technological ingenuity. But to say this is a film about deserts is overly simple-it is a film about people, and about what happens inside the minds of those people when they inhabit desert wildernesses. In this series of vignettes set in various deserts of the American West, we meet folk singers and rock and electronic musicians who have gained inspiration from their time there, people who seek spiritual enlightenment, and others-like marginal squatters or men who drive dune buggies at top speed-who use the expanse as an escape from civilization. But the film goes beyond being a sum of its parts; subtle editing puts the stories in conversation with one another until a common, humanizing theme emerges.

A documentary about the people, activities and myths of the American desert, a place that permits experiments of all kinds. Speed, art, science, music, weapons, religion, and law - everything is put to the test here.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 October, 2013.

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