“Anamnesis by Attrition: Philip Hoffman’s All Fall Down” by Tom Kohut

*Featured Picture: Mike Hoolboom in All Fall Down (2009)

“In a film that consists as a series of displacements, its hard to know where to begin. It would be facile to suggest that time is spatialized (the characteristic of Jamesonian postmodernism) or, conversely, that space registers the vertical imprint of its diachonic totality (Derridean hauntology). But something very like that happens in Philip Hoffman’s All Fall Down (2009). So one has to be careful here – the lives of actual people, and their deaths, are at stake here.”

by Tom Kohut (cineflyer – Motion pictures and related arts in Winnipeg, Canada) 

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Michael Sicinski on `All Fall Down’  here