(Filmmaker in person)

Roosevelt Bassett finds his materials in the demolition sites along the sidewalks of Philadelphia. But the roots of his art stretch far from the city to his childhood in rural South Carolina and the one-room schoolhouse where, among many other things, he learned how to hammer, saw – and sew. The filmcraft and character of Roosevelt is well suited to the artcraft and character of its subject – direct, unaffected, genuine.

(2007, 11 min.) – G.R.