{"product_id":"invisible-girlfriend","title":"Invisible Girlfriend","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0133\/2562\/files\/carn.png?v=1768588754\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca title=\"Community Screenings Form\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collectiveeye.org\/pages\/host-a-screening\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0133\/2562\/files\/WebsiteButton_3bb924f4-b7af-47a7-98d9-8c2765d50eb0_480x480.jpg?v=1718641924\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6px; float: start;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDirected by: \u003c\/strong\u003eD. Redmon \u0026amp; A. Sabin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReleased:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026 (educational)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear of Production:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2009\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRunning Time: \u003c\/strong\u003e70 min\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubtitle Options:\u003c\/strong\u003e English Closed Captions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSubjects: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAmerican Studies, Mental and Physical Health\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmK76y6tRsg?si=DYf-veXRvTVfkRQM\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles is in love with his invisible girlfriend, Joan of Arc, so he decides to ride his big red bicycle 400 miles from Monroe through rural Louisiana to find her in a New Orleans bar. Along the way, he encounters a farmer, a witch, a tin man, and a man who honors the dead. Working within the tradition of creative non-fiction, \u003cstrong\u003eInvisible Girlfriend\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Southern tale that transcends literal interpretations of images in order to open up rich, loamy textures of humor and drama. The cinematography is startling in its intensity and violent beauty, representing an optical trope that offsets the desperate love that Charles sets off on his journey to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRipping Reality: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hotdocs.ca\/film\/title\/invisible_girlfriend\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHot Docs Film Festival\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRon Tibbett Award for Excellence in Film: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.magfilmfest.com\/The_Mag\/The_12th_Annual_Mag.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMagnolia Film Festival\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBest Humanities Themed Documentary: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaonthebayou.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCinema on the Bayou\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBest Directing: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiememphis.com\/\"\u003eIndie Memphis Film Festival\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBest Feature Film: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/differentfromwhatfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDifferent From What Film Festival\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul id=\"reviewList\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“\u003cstrong\u003eInvisible Girlfriend\u003c\/strong\u003e is a textbook example of what can result when savvy documentarians fortuitously connect (or, in this case, reconnect) with an interesting subject at precisely the right moment.... Final scenes are genuinely heart wrenching.” Joe Leydon, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117940246.html?categoryid=31\u0026amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVariety\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“A surprising and profoundly compassionate road trip about an America struggling to get back on its feet, with filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon working at the intersection of Flannery O'Connor Avenue and Werner Herzog Boulevard.” Ty Burr, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/movies\/gallery\/iffbburr2009\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The intrepid Sabin and Redmon unmitigatingly open themselves up to the rich, loamy textures of human life and drama that make most of us run in the other direction or, at the very least, flat out ignore.” Pamela Cohn, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/stillinmotion.typepad.com\/still_in_motion\/2009\/02\/oz-never-did-give-nothing-to-the-tin-man-.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eStill in Motion\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“A surreal, Wizard of Oz-esque journey through one of America's most vibrant landscapes, with characters you couldn't make up and a climax that is flat-out unbelievable. Redmon and Sabin are America's answer to Werner Herzog, delivering films that transcend the realms of fiction and non-fiction to reach a new state of truth.” Michael Tully, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.hammertonail.com\/genre\/documentary\/sarasota-film-festival-2009-saturday-april-4th-and-sunday-april-5th\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHammer to Nail\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e               \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the filmmakers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e            \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilmmaking duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin together produce, direct, photograph and edit critically acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide at Telluride, Sundance, Toronto, Cinema du Reel, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, RIDM, MoMA, Telluride, and Viennale Film Festivals and on PBS, POV, BBC, CBC, DR, ARTE, and NHK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir body of work includes Kim’s Video whereby they play with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres as co-director David Redmon sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily. Four “animal ethnography” films based in the world of donkeys and funded by the Leverhulme Trust: \u003cem\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eDo Donkeys Act?\u003c\/em\u003e(2017), \u003cem\u003eChoreography\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), and \u003cem\u003eHerd\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); two dream\/memory cinema poems Sentient 1 \u0026amp; 2 (2015\/2016); a 6 minute snowbound ballet mécanique, \u003cem\u003eNeige\u003c\/em\u003e (2016); a suite of U.S. post-industrialization themed films set inside three interconnected factories on the coast of Prospect Harbor, Maine: \u003cem\u003eDowneast\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), \u003cem\u003eNight Labor\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eKingdom of Animal\u003c\/em\u003e(2012); a feature documentary about the labyrinthine world of teenage modeling in which a New York based scout recruits Siberian teenagers to the Tokyo model market \u003cem\u003eGirl Model\u003c\/em\u003e (2011); a film linking China and New Orleans through globalized manufacturing of cheap throwaway goods for American leisure pursuit, \u003cem\u003eMardi Gras: Made in China\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and two “carnivalesque” character driven films set in Louisiana \u003cem\u003eKamp Katrina\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eInvisible Girlfriend\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). Lastly, set on the U.S. Mexico border, a longitudinal love story about family relationships and the meaning of “home” Intimidad (2008), which has been described as “a documentary fairytale of truly humbling proportions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e               \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.collectiveeye.org\/pages\/screenings\"\u003eHost a Screening and Book the Filmmaker at your Event\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-loaded=\"true\" data-page-number=\"1\" id=\"pageContainer1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-canvas-width=\"745.4456470588237\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 2\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"D. 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