Down in Dallas Town [eFilm]
2024
Streaming Video
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, norteño, 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.
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First Run Features, 2023.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by First Run Features in 2023.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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English
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819614
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