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Two women sit in a laundromat, a camera on a tripod between them.

Alberta Number One

  Alexander Carson

  Canada     83 minutes

Synopsis

An eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They look for meaning in the landscape, but their search turns inward as they’re inspired to reckon with their own lives.

Directed with a light touch, this charming cross-country odyssey is part revisionist Western and part road movie. Punctuated by moments of extraordinary tenderness and unexpected violence, it invokes poetry, magic, and prayer to imagine a radical, caring form of wildness on the Canadian frontier.

 English 

Screenings & Events

Screening

Fri, Oct 25 @ 5:30pm CDT

at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 01

Scheduled to Attend:
Director Alexander Carson
Accessibility options for this screening:
  • Closed Captions
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Screening

Sat, Oct 26 @ 11:00am CDT

at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 01

Scheduled to Attend:
Director Alexander Carson
Accessibility options for this screening:
  • Closed Captions
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Media

Film Credits

  •   Alexander Carson, Sara Corry, Kyle Thomas
  •   Alexander Carson
  •   Noel Pendawa
  •   David Ehrenreich
  •   Liz Peterson, Bebe Buckskin, Ingrid Vargas, Randall Okita, Kris Demeanor, Benjamin Carson
  •   Joseph Murray, Brodie West
  •   Alexandra Lazarowich
  •   North Country Cinema Productions

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