Ghosts and Gravel Roads explained

Ghosts and Gravel Roads
Director:Mike Rollo
Cinematography:Terryll Loffler
Editing:Mike Rollo
Distributor:Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Runtime:16 minutes
Country:Canada

Ghosts and Gravel Roads is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Mike Rollo and released in 2008.[1] The film depicts various abandoned farm buildings in rural Saskatchewan, with a hand pinning up archival photographs suggestive of the people who might once have lived or worked there.[1]

Rollo is a film production professor at the University of Regina, and makes experimental documentary films exploring "alternative approaches to documentary cinema – methods which thematize vanishing cultures and transitional spaces."[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2008,[3] and was the winner of the Silver Mikeldi at the 2008 Zinebi - Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Mike Everleth, "Movie Review: 2008 ATA Film & Video Festival: Short Film Reviews (Part 2)". Underground Film Journal, September 29, 2008.
  2. Quinn Bell, "Sask Independent Film Awards". The Carillon, December 2, 2018.
  3. "TIFF's Top Ten". Vancouver Sun, December 17, 2008.
  4. https://noticine.com/festivales/10411-premios-en-los-festivales-espanoles-de-gijon-bilbao-y-cuenca.html "Premios en los festivales españoles de Gijón, Bilbao y Cuenca"