(Filmmaker in person)

Nicholas Berger (The Man With The Electric Boots, MFF 2007) returns to the Festival with another unusual short documentary. This one concerns a small trailer park community in the Mojave desert and the ebullient stranger who comes from the city to live among them for a time and build the Lizard Tree Library. Rosalie is as much about the Where as about the Woman. As the director notes: “The film is ostensibly about Rosalie and how the residents of Slab City remember her, but the real focus ends up being on the community itself … an environment characterized by austere natural beauty, decay and a sense of weathered wildness.”

(2007, 10 min.) – G.R.