Dead People (2005)
Directed by Roger Deutsch
Release Date - Sep 1, 2005 (USA) |
Run Time - 19 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis
Filmed in 1974 and edited and released in 1983 (and then rereleased by its director in 2005), DEAD PEOPLE purports to document the final years of Frank Butler, a local fixture in the depressed burg of Ellicot City with a particular fondness for drink and tales of the dead. Over hazy 16mm footage two decades later, Deutsch adopted a painfully unsentimental view of his early approach, colored as it was by notions of ethnographic film and an undercurrent of fetishism for a man he considered somehow