The American Cinematheque
6512 Hollywood Boulevard
323-740-6522

March 24: In person: MARK STREET
Los Angeles Premiere of At Home and Asea (70 mins, video)

Mark Street, best known for his elegiac abstract work, here turns to DV technology to create an ambitious and complex essay on the state of things. Using documentary and fictional elements, At Home and Asea unfolds in a series of unsettling and poignant vignettes featuring five characters who piece together their lives in Baltimore, MD.

An African-American man sifts through his father’s suburban home looking for keys to a seemingly opaque life. A recent college grad wanders the blighted cityscape as he considers a move to California. Three single mothers struggle to keep their dreams alive in the face of oppressive and failing family dynamics. In a blend of direct address, interviews and dramatic scenes, At Home and Asea explores the language of displacement and isolation against the backdrop of a strangely cold modern landscape.