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Imagined States of America
20141 h 26 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Alberta Nokes
Production: Ian Boyd (Les Films de l'Isle)Johanne Bergeron (National Film Board of Canada)Yves Bisaillon (National Film Board of Canada)Marc Bertrand (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Alberta Nokes
Produced by Les Films de l'Isle in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.
When you hear the word “America,” what springs to mind? Car culture, big business, advertising, religious fundamentalism, the consumer society, militarism, suburbia, office towers, and the technology of paranoia? Imagined States of America takes on the big American myths to get at the heart of a country that continues to fascinate the world. Inspired by the photo collages of Quebec artist Pierre Guimond, and incorporating an intricately built soundscape, the film is like a dream on the verge of a nightmare, revealing an America that’s rich in paradoxes.
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Subject categories
- Social Issues > American DreamForeign Societies
- Foreign Countries > United States
Credits
- screen adaptation
- Alberta Nokes
- writer
- Alberta Nokes
- narrator
- Katie Malloch
- voice
- Guy Nadon
- editor
- Christopher J. Malanchen
- sound design
- Mathieu Beaudin
- sound re-recording mixer
- Jean Paul Vialard
- additional sound design
- Cory Rizos
- additional mixing
- Cory Rizos
- original music
- Robert Marcel Lepage
- post-production supervisor
- Gary Evans
- producer
- Ian Boyd
- Johanne Bergeron
- Yves Bisaillon
- Marc Bertrand
- photo tour director
- Denis McCready
- location scout
- Robert B. Mendel
- Nancy Ellen Jones
- John Norwood
- Francis McIntyre
- visual effects
- Christopher J. Malanchen
- Benoît Chagnon
- additional editing
- Pierre Plouffe
- Emmanuel Suquet
- additional visual effects
- Pierre Plouffe
- Emmanuel Suquet
- online editor
- Yannick Carrier
- technical support
- Pierre Dupont
- Isabelle Painchaud
- technical coordinator
- David Bélanger
- fine-cut
- Véronique Laliberté
- Michèle Hénen
- optimization
- Geneviève Lagacé
- additional soundscapes
- Christian Olsen
- musician
- Stéphane Allard
- Céline Arcand
- Jean René
- Elizabeth Dubé
- Sheila Hannigan
- Yannick Cloutier
- Guy Kaye
- Benoît Clément
- Jean-François Lemieux
- Jean-François Groulx
- Jacques Séguin
- Lévy Bourbonnais
- Olivier Maranda
- Dominique Lagüe
- music recording
- Benoit Durand-Jodoin
- Robert Langlois
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- music mixer
- Nicolas Borycki