Movie Details
Theatrical Release:April 19th, 2019
On Digital & Streaming:September 22nd, 2020
Original Language:English
Field Resistance on the Web:Official Website
Field Resistance (2019)
DirectorEmily Drummer
Plot
Charging scenes of the present with dystopian speculation Field Resistance blurs the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and science fiction to investigate overlooked environmental devastation in the overlooked state of Iowa Footage collected from disparate locationsa university herbarium karst sinkholes inhabited by primordial flora and fauna a telecommunication tower job site a decaying grain silo among othersinterlocks to evoke a narrative of present danger and future disaster of plant expansion and humanitys retreat The film rejects the human individual as the focus of narrative cinema and instead adopts the perspective of a symbiotic implosive whole in which human and nonhumans are related in an overlapping nontotal way
