INTERNATIONAL DOX: FEATURES
Bombay Beach
Directors
Alma Har’el
Producers
Alma Har’el
Boaz Yakin
Cinematographers
Alma Har’el
Editors
Alma Har’el
Joe Lindquist
Sound
Dror Mohar
Official Film Website
Contact
Submarine Entertainment
New York, NY 10012
+ 212 625 1410
[email protected],
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2011
United States
80 min
Color
The rusting relic of a failed 1950s development boom, the Salton Sea is a barren Californian landscape often seen as a symbol of the failure of the American Dream. A sea in the middle of the Colorado desert. First-time director Alma Har’el visits this poetically fruitful terrain in her distinctive documentary Bombay Beach, and finds there a motley cast including a bipolar seven-year-old, a lovelorn high school football star, and an octogenarian poet-prophet. Together they make up a triptych of American manhood in its decisive moments, populating the Salton Sea’s land of thwarted opportunity.
Born and raised in Israel Alma Har’el began her work as a photographer and a video artist. While working in NY and London her live video-art performances with musicians led her to directing music videos.
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