The Sole of the Foot

United States, Germany

2011

34 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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DIR Robert Fenz

New York (Views from the Avant-Garde)

Synopsis

Borders (and all the politics attending the drawing of borders) exist to keep some people in (by granting or refusing citizenship) and others out. This film is an attempt to capture the presence of people otherwise denied the political right to be at home in some place that is their home, where they have their being: Palestinians and Israelis in the contested Middle East; Africans in France, Cubans on the island of Cuba (their right to rule themselves denied by foreign powers). —Robert Fenz

Director

Robert Fenz

ROBERT FENZ (b.1969, Ann Arbor, Michigan) received his BA from Bard College and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He is best known for his short film cycle Meditations on Revolution (1997-2003). Shot in 16mm black-and-white and filmed in Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Mississippi and New York City, the five films demonstrate an experimental, lyrical approach to non-fiction filmmaking. His work has been recognized nationally and internationally by numerous prizes and awards including a LEF Foundation Production grant, a DAAD artist residency in Berlin, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Artists’ Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He was invited to exhibit in both the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials, and has had solo presentations of his films at the Locarno International Film Festival, Cinematheque Francais, Rotterdam International film festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Film Archive and worldwide at many other venues. Recently, he taught filmmaking at… read more