Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus

17 Oct 2010

Doors 7pm, film starts 7.30pm

The film will be introduced by producer Martin Rosenbaum 

Tickets £9

Directed by Andrew Douglas

Runtime: 82min

www.searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, stunningly photographed and directed by Andrew Douglas, is a thought-provoking and intriguing odyssey into the heart of the poor white American South.

‘Alt Country’ singer Jim White drives a beat-up Chevy Impala through a hard-scrabble underworld of Pentecostal church, trailer park, coal mine, prison and truck stop, where the secular and spiritual are joined at the hip. With dramatic musical interludes by such as Johnny Dowd, The Handsome Family, David Johansen, and White himself – and grisly stories from the cult Southern novelist Harry Crews - the film dissolves the borders between story, song and poetry, in an atmospheric bayou of pure evocation. In tracing white America's southern-fried fundamentalist roots, Douglas and White go a long way toward explaining a culture that mystifies much of the world.

‘Powerful and moving…if David Lynch made a road documentary about rural communities of the American South it might look a great deal like this…’ Gabriel Shanks, Tribeca Film Festival , New York