Guns of the Trees ( I fucili degli alberi )

Guns of the Trees (DVD) (*)

$28.99

Original Title: I fucili degli alberi
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jonas Mekas

Written By:
Jonas Mekas

Actors:
Adolfas Mekas ..... Gregory
Frances Stillman ..... Barbara
Ben Carruthers ..... Ben
Argus Spear Juillard ..... Argus
Frank Kuenstler ..... Frank
Louis Brigante ..... Luis

Synopsis:

Four young people are trying to understand why their friend, a young woman, committed a suicide. A film made up of disconnected scenes weaving between past and present. The title of the film comes from a poem by Stuart Perkoff which tells that some young people felt (around 1960) that everything is against them, so much that even the trees in the parks and streets seemed to them like guns pointing at their very existence. Guns of the Trees deals with the thoughts, feelings, and anguished strivings of my generation, faced with the moral perplexity of our times. Conceived as an episodic, horizontal film, there is no apparent direct story connection between one scene and the next. The scenes act like pieces of a larger, timed, emotional mosaic. Where the direct word, or the direct image, fails - when we come to more essential things - the indirectness of the poet will seize the essence and the truth.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 04 January, 2018.

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