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Tracy's Family Folk Festival

🎞️ Movie 10 min --
1983

This is an impression of the 1982 folk festival at the Tracy and Eloise Schwarz farm in Central Pennsylvania. The festival, dedicated to the legendary Elizabeth Cotton, includes Bluegrass, Old Timey, Cajun, Country, and Gospel music. In contrast to the casual atmosphere of the festival, the film is an elaborately collaged image with shapes derived from traditional Pennsylvania Dutch designs. While sometimes the music seems to animate the image, at others the image itself becomes a kind of visual music eliciting ephemeral sensuousness. The film is a unique meeting of the folk tradition and the avant garde, implying a fundamental connection between the two.

Cast

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Bill Brand
Cinematographer