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Depot Docs Presents: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
Now that the caucuses are over, and the year-long presidential job fair, candidate branding and marketing campaign, and media circus has left Iowa for New Hampshire (run, Granny, run!), our friends at Depot Docs, with perfect timing, have invited multi-award winning filmmakers Jeanne Jordan and Steve Ascher to bring their exquisite, deeply moving, Iowa-from-the-inside documentary, Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern, to Garrison's Landing on Friday, January 11, at 7:30pm.
Nominated for an Academy Award, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and broadcast on PBS' The American Experience, Troublesome Creek tells the story of Ms. Jordan's family, and of the land in southwest Iowa that the Jordans settled in 1867, and the farming life that they've made there since.
Most poignantly- and what originally brought the filmmakers back to Iowa- the film documents the efforts of Ms. Jordan's parents, Russ and Mary Jane, to keep a new, regional mega-bank from calling in their mounting debt, and foreclosing on the farm. Acdi year would be part of the farm's history. And unlike all the other pivotal moments stretching back over the years, kept alive only by storytelling, this moment could be captured on film."
To capture that "moment" took more than a year of filming, and four extended stays at the farm. During that time, Steve Ascher, the principal cinematographer, shot twentyseven hours of footage, which Jeanne Jordan edited into an 88- minute cut. In the process, they have given us, not only a "moment," but a film that, in the words of one critic, "does what most great works of art do- it reflects the human condition with humor, candor, compassion, and grace."
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern will be shown at the Philipstown Depot Theatre on Friday, January 11, at 7:30pm. Filmmakers Jeanne Jordon and Steve Ascher will participate in a discussion with the audience after the screening. A reception will be hosted by the Glynwood Center, whose Agricultural Initiative aims to help sustain farmers, like the Jordans, who are most at risk as a result of federal policies that favor large farms produci
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