The complete Russ McElwee is now available on DVD.
Sherman's March & Time Indefinite are both top ten on my all-time list.
In March he sets out to make a film about Sherman's March (go figure), but instead ends up wandering the south, getting into relationships with a variety of more or less neurotic women and filming the results.
If he were a less interesting filmmaker, it wouldn't amount to much more than the sort of videodiary wanking we've been conditioned to expect from 'reality' tv. But he's more trenchant observer of the human condition than navel-gazing postgrad slacker, making March one of the most involving personal documentaries around.
Time Indefinite is, astonishingly, even better. It lays a strong claim to the descriptor Best Documentary Nobody's Seen. It successfully marries the quirky insight that made March great with a deeper understanding of the human condition.
A brilliant film. When I'm dictator it will be required viewing.
The others I haven't seen yet, but I've no reason to worry they'll be anything less than compelling.
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