San Francisco Documentary Festival 2022

Shorts 3: Keepin' On (plus Q&As)

Expired June 13, 2022 6:59 AM
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6 films in package
A People's History of Cement
In the shadow of an abandoned cement plant, residents of a post-industrial town on the California coast reflect on the plant's tumultuous legacy and its effect on their lives.
Anchored Out
In wealthy Sausalito floats one of the last free places in California. A vulnerable liveaboard community of mariners, drifters, nomads, disaster survivors, and those cast out by high costs of living and no social safety net struggle against a harbormaster, bureaucrats and a wealthy community that wants them gone.
Contents Inventory
When a homeowners insurance claimant experiences the total loss of a home, insurance companies often require a comprehensive contents inventory to be prepared—a spreadsheet listing every single object that was in the destroyed home. Filmed in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California during the nine months following the CZU Lightning Complex wildfire that destroyed over 900 area homes, filmmaker Irene Lusztig invites her own neighbors to share objects lost or found in the fire. Together, they co-create a different kind of “contents inventory”—a collective emotional map of what home means at a moment when the idea of home feels most fragile. Contents Inventory is a meditation on loss and the material archeology of objects; a reflection on the convergence of climate, housing, and insurance crises; and a process of bearing witness to what it feels like to lose everything in the weeks and months after news cameras stop paying attention.
Every Hundred Miles (across America with Robert Frank)
In 1975 a young film student accompanies photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank on a three day trip across America. Features unseen Super-8 footage of the journey shot by Finley Fryer and Robert Frank along the way. This transformational trip is narrated by the filmmaker Finley Fryer 45 years after the fact with the rare insights of a classic road trip movie.
Contents Inventory Q&A
Keepin' On Q&A

In the shadow of an abandoned cement plant, residents of a post-industrial town on the California coast reflect on the plant's tumultuous legacy and its effect on their lives.

  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Kyle Baker, Colin Rosemont