Paul McIsaac

  • Robert Kramer – Doc’s Kingdom (1988)

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    An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a ’60s radical turned doctor in exile.

    Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc Knows the disease’s real name: despair. His thoughts about his failed struggle for justice and ideals are drowned regularly in alcohol. On the other side of the world lives Jimmy, a speed-loving motorbike freak who, when his mother dies, finds a letter from Doc and discovers that his father, whom he thought was dead, is still alive. The encounter of the two men leads to a reappraisal of two worlds in opposition.Read More »

  • Robert Kramer – Route One USA (1989)

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    From more than 65 hours of film footage, acclaimed American independent filmmaker
    Robert Kramer crafted this epic portrait of the famous highway that runs from Maine
    to Key West, Florida. Route One/USA shows how what was once the most traveled roadway
    in the world has become, in the words of the filmmaker, “a thin stretch of asphalt
    cutting through the dreams of a nation.”Read More »

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