The American Sector

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The American Sector

For 18 months, Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez (ManakamanaThe Reagan Show) traveled the US to document sections of the Berlin Wall that are on display in over 75 locations, ranging from the serious (Fort Benning) to the bizarre (Main Street Station Casino in Las Vegas), and even the campus of nearby Capital University. Along the way, interviews with unusual characters who own, maintain, and interact with pieces of the wall offer a window into American culture, and through the film these Cold War relics become a catalyst for exploring today’s timely issues.

“An exemplary work of cinema as political action. A film that powerfully evokes the active presence of history in daily civic life—and reveals the politics that inhere in its commemoration. Yields extraordinary results through audacious methods.”
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"Shrewdly traces how the future is filtered through our separate and collective imaginations of the past."
David Ehrlich, indieWire
"An elegant and potent visual essay."
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter


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