Beyond This Place (2010)

Name: Beyond This Place
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-04-18

1h 34m

Running Time

Plot.

Taking drugs and intense cycling are the only things to which Cloud Rock La Belle has remained faithful throughout his life. Now his son, Kaleo, challenges his eccentric father to a bike trip. Cycling through the Pacific Northwest, Kaleo questions his father's search for truth and demands justification for his absence in his life. This film explores their failed father and son relationship and questions whether the hippie concept of freedom ultimately failed.

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This Movie Is About.

parent child relationship ·

cycling ·

lsd

Cast & Crew.

Kaleo La Belle

Himself / Director

Sufjan Stevens

Music

Raymond Raposa

Music

Sebastian Zembol

Producer

Tania Stöcklin

Editor

Details.

Release Date
April 18, 2010

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 34m

Genres
Documentary

Wiki.

Beyond This Place is a 2010 documentary film directed by Kaleo La Belle, screened at a number of film festivals. In it, La Belle reunites with his biological father Cloud Rock La Belle, a charismatic figure who was largely absent from his life. The film deals, in a personal and intimate way, with issues of parenting, issues of freedom versus responsibility, and with the aging of the 60's generation.

The film won an award for Best Documentary over 60 minutes at the 2010 Krakow Film Festival and the "Prix création" award at the 2010 Visions du Réel film festival.The score of the film was written by Sufjan Stevens and Raymond Raposa. The film was screened with a live musical performance by the two musicians in the fall of 2011, including at the Castro Theater in San Francisco.