Below sea level
Director Gianfranco Rosi
Countries
Duration 110 min
Synopsis
About 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 120 feet below sea level, a commune of outcasts lives in the middle of the desert. They’re not some hippie colony, just a group of people who have turned their back on society and want to be left alone. On this bare, arid plain, we see a mobile home here and there, a car or a impromptu house. The people who live there answer to imaginative names like Bulletproof, Insane Wayne and Bus Kenny. They kill time by messing around, doing odd jobs, talking and living. For some of them, this desolate place with no electricity or running water is a temporary address, while for others it’s a permanent vacation. Everyone has his or her own reason for being here, and especially a reason for not to be somewhere else.
About 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 120 feet below sea level, a commune of outcasts lives in the middle of the desert. They’re not some hippie colony, just a group of people who have turned their back on society and want to be left alone. On this bare, arid plain, we see a mobile home here and there, a car or a impromptu house. The people who live there answer to imaginative names like Bulletproof, Insane Wayne and Bus Kenny. They kill time by messing around, doing odd jobs, talking and living. For some of them, this desolate place with no electricity or running water is a temporary address, while for others it’s a permanent vacation. Everyone has his or her own reason for being here, and especially a reason for not to be somewhere else.