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LOST NATION, January 1999 (1999)
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
Documentary · 18m
In January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if I would be in for a trip to Lost Nation. They explained this was part of a project they were setting up in Brussels: a place slash library slash installation about vanished nations such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, USSR, and Zaire. But where was Lost Nation? Browsing through their library, Herman and Dieter stumbled onto Lost Nation, an American village located on Highway 136 in Eastern Iowa, with a community of 497 citizens. And so, this little road movie was the result. A trip to a nation where the average citizen spends about 5 years of his lifetime waiting in line, 2 years trying to reach people by telephone, 1 year searching for misplaced objects, 8 months opening junk-mail and 6 months sitting at traffic lights. A nation that attempted to impeach the wrong president.
Crew
- Director
- Johan Grimonprez
Details
- Release date
- 1999-03-01
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Belgium, United States of America
- Production
- Zap-O-Matik