Ghosts and Gravel Roads (2008)

Name: Ghosts and Gravel Roads
Released: 2008-01-01

16m

Running Time

Plot.

[16:00 | Super 16mm – HD | Colour | Stereo | 2008] An inventory of lost memories and places, the sun-bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serves as a metaphor for displacement, a framing of emptiness and absence. Traveling to forgotten towns and channeled through old family photographs the camera catalogs the haunting remnants of the past, frail monuments and communities laid bare, broken under economic collapse. Under the weight of the prairie skies a visceral, personal encounter is revealed in the solace of open space.

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Cast & Crew.

Mike Rollo

Director

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 2008

Status
Released

Running Time
16m

Last updated: 2025-02-13

Wiki.

Ghosts and Gravel Roads is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Mike Rollo and released in 2008. The film depicts various abandoned farm buildings in rural Saskatchewan, with a hand pinning up archival photographs suggestive of the people who might once have lived or worked there.

Rollo is a film production professor at the University of Regina, and makes experimental documentary films exploring "alternative approaches to documentary cinema – methods which thematize vanishing cultures and transitional spaces."

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2008, and was the winner of the Silver Mikeldi at the 2008 Zinebi - Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival.