An eccentric Brooklyn musician, Walter Baker navigates his family’s course on the fringes of a new American landscape. A must see for the emergent creative class; an immersive meditation on possibly one of the last vestiges of NY bohemia as a couple wrestles with the complexities of family, art, money, religion, gentrification, love and loss. Lyrical and atmospheric, RUBBERBAND transcends the notion of traditional documentary, weaving a spell as it paints a portrait in the overflowing words and lingering silences between people who ostensibly love each other, but who can’t quite seem to connect.
Through disjointed attempts to find a sense of belonging in his environment and within his family, Walter is surrounded and enveloped by the sounds that make up his truest home. The story unfolds amidst the vibrations of the bleating and trumpeting rubber band, wind whistling through the steel beams of abandoned bridges, shoes slapping angrily against city pavement, and the organic, resonant tones of the family ranch down south.
A RUBBERBAND IS AN UNLIKELY INSTRUMENT is a film to be experienced as much through the flow and currents of sound, as through the existential drama of its participants….and, it should scare the hell out of mumblecore audiences.
Through disjointed attempts to find a sense of belonging in his environment and within his family, Walter is surrounded and enveloped by the sounds that make up his truest home. The story unfolds amidst the vibrations of the bleating and trumpeting rubber band, wind whistling through the steel beams of abandoned bridges, shoes slapping angrily against city pavement, and the organic, resonant tones of the family ranch down south.
A RUBBERBAND IS AN UNLIKELY INSTRUMENT is a film to be experienced as much through the flow and currents of sound, as through the existential drama of its participants….and, it should scare the hell out of mumblecore audiences.
© BRWC 2010.
