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North by Current(2021)
Overview
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.
Production Companies:
![Field of Vision Field of Vision](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/hT2G2iuXXqY458TYen2T2qmjlS8.png)
![JustFilms / Ford Foundation JustFilms / Ford Foundation](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/g7FpsadP1UG9MotNi54RvE5hiGY.png)
![Tribeca Film Institute Tribeca Film Institute](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/dzFVNsYm8hihgjv9tZrQRPIn9Mf.png)
![Sundance Institute Sundance Institute](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/unMAQEA4tPsOndGkPSsoVq9HKTu.png)
![American Documentary American Documentary](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/pco0XApCHktibWvUG2IpGj4DBV9.png)
![Open Society Foundations Open Society Foundations](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/blYX6Tr7cIvdpYdbzEb7P6OHPOA.png)