Six O’Clock News 1996
The filmmaker drives across America obsessively watching catastrophic stories from local television news in the various communities he visits. He then seeks out the people he has seen in the news to do more personal, in-depth portraits. A meditation on media, mortality, and theology — American style.
Premiered Sundance Film Festival
Produced, directed, and edited by Ross McElwee
“An elegant mediation on order and chaos in our daily lives that takes local newscasts as
dangerously
wide open windows into an America filled with hate, pain and overwhelming absurdity.”
—David Kerr, New York Times
wide open windows into an America filled with hate, pain and overwhelming absurdity.”
—David Kerr, New York Times