2009 / RUNNING TIME: 75/48 MINS / COLOR
Over an hour of extras including an essay by Pamela Cohn
Charles is in love with his invisible girlfirend, Joan of Arc, so he
decides to ride his big red bicycle 400 miles from Monroe through
rural Louisiana to find her in a New Orleans bar. Along the way, he
encounters a farmer, a witch, a tin man, and a man who honors the
dead. Working within the tradition of creative nonfiction, Invisible
Girlfriend is a Southern tale that transcends literal interpretations
of images in order to open up rich, loamy textures of humor and
drama. The cinematography is startling in its intensity and violent
beauty, representing an optical trope that offsets the desperate
love that Charles sets off on his journey to find.
Ron Tibbett Award
for Excellence
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“The intrepid Sabin and Redmon unmitigatingly open
themselves up to the rich, loamy textures of human life and
drama that make most of us run in the other direction or, at
the very least, flat out ignore.”
- Pamela Cohn, Still in Motion
“A surreal, Wizard of Oz-esque journey through one of
America’s most vibrant landscapes, with characters you
couldn’t make up and a climax that is flat-out unbelievable.
Redmon and Sabin are America’s answer to Werner Herzog,
delivering films that transcend the realms of fiction and nonfiction to reach a new state of truth.”
- Michael Tully, Hammer to Nail
ORDER DUE DATE - JULY 31, 2009
STREET DATE - AUGUST 25, 2009
DVD
Invisible Girlfriend
CRV 07
File Under: Documentary
List Price: $24.95
DIRECTED BY DAVID REDMON & ASHLEY SABIN PRODUCED BY DEBORAH & DALE SMITH STARRING CHARLES FIHIOL
EDITED BY DAVID REDMON, TIM MESSLER & ASHLEY SABIN CINEMATOGRAPHY DAVID REDMON & ASHLEY SABIN
ADVISORS MARK BECKER & JOANNE RABIGER ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE ERIC TAXIER PACKAGE DESIGN JESSE BUSSEY
2009 CARNIVALESQUE FILMS / WWW.CARNIVALESQUEFILMS.COM / CARNIVALESQUEDISTRIBUTION@GMAIL.COM
