Sundown

SUNDOWN is excerpted from a transdisciplinary slow ethnography project on race and travel in the American South Deploying the 360 degree camera but resisting the trend toward what Bazin called the myth of total cinema SUNDOWN elects not to reconcile the dual 180 degree image streams into an illusion of continuity that to the filmmakers appears as artificial as the furious Russian cutting of Eisenstein and the early Soviets or the suturing of spectators into the comforting illusions of bourgeois realism typical of classic Hollywood Instead SUNDOWN offers a properly alienated crosssection of an evening in New Castle Virginia a town described on Wikipedia as 100 white where not long ago travelers of color might have been urged to move on as quickly as possible