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Film: Wrestling With My Father
Director:
Charles Fairbanks
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Production Group Website:
http://charlesfairbanks.info
Date Completed:
2010-05
Festival Viewing:
(11) Goes to 11
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Wrestling with my Father features my father sitting on bleachers, facing the camera. We hear a whistle and he tenses up, reacting physically to the action that remains offscreen, hidden to us. He plants his feet, sways his hips, leans, grabs, and grimaces, wrestling - or is it dancing? - with the object of his gaze.
'Remarkable in just how much you can achieve in a short time and on the lowest of budgets, Wrestling With My Father simply depicts Fairbanks’ dad in the audience of a wrestling match (apparently with the filmmaker as one of the wrestlers). Within this extraordinarily simple set-up are whole worlds of humour, pathos and intrigue.'
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