Down in Dallas Town.
A startling film about the shifting terrain of public memory sixty years after the murder of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s, the film explores the impact of the assassination on issues in today's world, from lingering conspiracy theories to the proliferation of gun violence, homelessness, and the scourge of K-2. Personal narratives are juxtaposed with the sentiments articulated in blues, gospel, norteƱo, and calypso recordings to haunting affect. Especially poignant is the account of Mary Ann Moorman, who returns to the assassination site fifty years later and details the making of her Polaroid photograph of the fatal head shot that killed JFK as the motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. This new resonant film by Alan Govenar confronts ways we come to terms with the past through the power of storytelling, image-making, and a songbook that is largely unknown.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : First Run Features, 2023.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by First Run Features in 2023. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Social sciences. History, Modern. Americans. Foreign study. Documentary films. Current affairs. History. |
Genre: | Documentary films. |
Electronic resources
https://innisfilidealab.kanopy.com/node/14121249
- A Kanopy streaming video