Celebrated filmmaker Frederick Wiseman returns with an immersive and nuanced ode to America’s small towns. Monrovia, Indiana reveals how values like community service, duty, generosity, and authenticity are formed and lived against conflicting cultural stereotypes and the constant backdrop of agricultural production. A portrait of today’s rural, mid-American way of life emerges through Monrovia’s town meetings, schools, churches, barber shops, café counters, and front porches. 2018, DCP, 143 min.
This presentation is made possible by generous support from the Bentson Foundation.
Without Interruption: Frederick Wiseman in Conversation with Paul Shambroom
As in many of his earlier works, Frederick Wiseman takes a long, slow, immersive look—without commentary, without interrupting—in his newest documentary, a portrait of life in a rural Indiana town. In anticipation of the Walker screening of Wiseman's Monrovia, Indiana, we turned to another master of the slow look, Paul Shambroom, a photographer who has offered nuanced views of some deceptively banal-seeming topics, from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to municipal meetings in small-town America. Here, their recent conversation.
