The Illinois Parables

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The Illinois Parables

2016

1h 0m

Documentary

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Regional vignettes about faith, technology and exodus.

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

04/27/2017

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.

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Jordan Mintzer

The Hollywood Reporter

11/30/2016

An absorbing celluloid meditation on geography and history.

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Melissa Anderson

Village Voice

11/17/2016

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

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

01/05/2023

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

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Nora Lee Mandel

Maven's Nest

07/16/2017

9/10

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.

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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