Mountain Fire Personnel
_Mountain Fire Personnel_ is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire spanning 27,000 acres in Southern California. The film surveys the response from firefighters and State Prisoners by using over 30 sources of amateur footage, internet media and professional camerawork.
| Director | Alex Tyson |
| Actor | Terence Chotard |
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From the spontaneous media coverage of the frightening fire that struck the mountains of Southern California in 2013, Alex Tyson paints a chaotic, nervous portrait of anonymous people engaged in the collective defense of a national park ravaged by flames.
There, in the midst of a steep, hostile landscape, the urgency of the situation brings together professional and volunteer firefighters, as well as inmates from the state prison who come to live and lend a hand to the firefighters.
From that moment on, by mixing observation footage, collages of amateur videos and radio recordings, the filmmaker produces a complex, hybrid chronology filled with contagious tension. Each narrative line is both a gripping adventure and a dramatic take on a global event recorded in real time.
But it's by staying as close to the action as possible, without context or superfluous information, that the film creates the vertigo of environmental catastrophe, and gradually succeeds in conveying a shared sense of belonging to the territory.
Terence Chotard
Filmmaker
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Anglais
29 mn
Language: English
Subtitles: English -
French
29 mn
Language: Français
Subtitles: Français
- Année 2015
- Pays United-States
- Durée 29
- Producteur Alex Tyson, Herb Shellenberger
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court Bringing together images found on the internet, Alex Tyson paints a picture of a major fire in 2013 in the San Jacintho Mountains, California.
From the spontaneous media coverage of the frightening fire that struck the mountains of Southern California in 2013, Alex Tyson paints a chaotic, nervous portrait of anonymous people engaged in the collective defense of a national park ravaged by flames.
There, in the midst of a steep, hostile landscape, the urgency of the situation brings together professional and volunteer firefighters, as well as inmates from the state prison who come to live and lend a hand to the firefighters.
From that moment on, by mixing observation footage, collages of amateur videos and radio recordings, the filmmaker produces a complex, hybrid chronology filled with contagious tension. Each narrative line is both a gripping adventure and a dramatic take on a global event recorded in real time.
But it's by staying as close to the action as possible, without context or superfluous information, that the film creates the vertigo of environmental catastrophe, and gradually succeeds in conveying a shared sense of belonging to the territory.
Terence Chotard
Filmmaker
-
Anglais
Duration: 29 minutesLanguage: English
Subtitles: English29 mn -
French
Duration: 29 minutesLanguage: Français
Subtitles: Français29 mn
- Année 2015
- Pays United-States
- Durée 29
- Producteur Alex Tyson, Herb Shellenberger
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court Bringing together images found on the internet, Alex Tyson paints a picture of a major fire in 2013 in the San Jacintho Mountains, California.
