Some people ask others a lot of questions out of genuine interest in the lives and narratives of fellow humans. One such curious listener is Clay Pigeon, an Iowan transplanted to New York City, where he works as a radio personality with a calming voice, performing free-form monologues. In this documentary, Pigeon and filmmaker Rachel Shuman take to the streets of New York with a microphone. Pigeon converses with passersby, asking probing, personal questions with an easygoing sincerity that causes people to become increasingly frank. Shuman also roams beyond Manhattan, capturing the diversity and mixed cultures of all the boroughs. What’s most interesting here is the timeframe: One October was shot a month before the 2008 election of Barack Obama, a time when hope was in the air. What emerges are sometimes electrifying moments from a pivotal time in America when the country was not so obviously divided. Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh)
One October
(2017) 56 min. DVD: $59.95 ($299 w/PPR from edu.passionriver.com). Passion River (avail. from most distributors). Volume 33, Issue 6
One October
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