52docs / 19 - Everything in America is easy

Summer is a time to be outside, preferably near water instead of sitting in front of a screen watching documentaries.

Luckily our next film allows you to sort of do both by taking us to "The Waterpark Capital of the World!^®"

The closest thing we have in the documentary world to your favorite independent record label is MEMORY whose back catalogue includes the incomparable Theo Anthony’s films. Anything they put out is guaranteed to be interesting so let’s dive in with filmmaker Nellie Kluz who turns a very simple approach - basically hanging out with a camera and talking to people - into a layered piece about the illusion of America dissolving upon contact.

Review

Listen to or read an interview with the director, and see her talk about the film here.

Watch the trailer.

Then stream the film directly from MEMORY or via Metrograph (I had to cancel my MUBI subscription so I signed up instead for Metrograph at Home which is both reasonably priced and owned/run by a filmmaker and tie designer).