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Located in mid-America, Monrovia, Indiana (population 1,063), founded in 1834, is primarily a farming community. The film is about the day-to-day experiences living and working in Monrovia, with emphasis on community organizations and institutions, religion and daily life in this farming community. It is a complex and nuanced view of the citie's daily life and provides some understanding of a rural, mid-American way of life that has always been important but whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood. Venice Film Festival 2018.
Frederick Wiseman
Born in Boston in 1930. He is one of the biggest names in documentary filmmaking, having directed more than 40 films. He is one of the precursors of the movement known as Direct Cinema, with films such as Titicut Follies (1967), Primate (1974), La Danse (2009), Boxing Gym (2010), shown at Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Festival, Crazy Horse (2011), At Berkeley (2013), In Jackson Heights (2015) and Ex Libris: New York Public Library (2017).
