The Illinois Parables

2016

1h 0m

Documentary

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100%

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10 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Regional vignettes about faith, technology and exodus.

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

This accomplished essay film may focus on our state, but Stratman's real concern is state power in the larger sense...Connecting all this are sweeping aerial shots that capture the beauty of the plains without obscuring the blood spilled to claim them.

Apr 27, 2017

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Jordan Mintzer

Hollywood Reporter

An absorbing celluloid meditation on geography and history.

Nov 30, 2016

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Melissa Anderson

Village Voice

Stratman often juxtaposes static, serene landscape footage with an increasingly agitated soundtrack, arriving at an odd consonance amid so much dissonance.

Nov 17, 2016

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

I think this DCP merges the best of two different mediums while encouraging us to think harder about the properties of both.

Jan 5, 2023

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Nora Lee Mandel

Maven's Nest

Thematically linked experimental documentary "suite" uses strong resonant images, with some re-enactments, to show how the land and prairie landscape don't forget the past.

Rated: 9/10

Jul 16, 2017

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Ray Pride

Newcity

It's rich with imaginative, suggestive raptures and ecstatic banalities (damp country roads, buildings ablaze, tornados, lazy waterways, snow-choked paths). Illinois dreams: mute landscape remains. It's strange history; ours.

Apr 12, 2016

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Synopsis

Regional vignettes about faith, technology and exodus.

Director: Deborah Stratman
Producer: Deborah Stratman
Screenwriter: Deborah Stratman
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 0m