Nye scener fra America

Jörgen Leth’s personal, poetic view of America, shot in New York, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and California in September 2001. Jörgen Leth and his cameraman Dan Holmberg decided to make a follow-up to their own classic 66 Scenes from America (1981). They wanted to portray the mythological America, the endless highways, the gas stations, the diners, the motels, the cities. The people in the film include cult figures like the poet John Ashbery, the composer John Cale, the actor Dennis Hopper, the filmmaker Albert Maysles and the photographer Robert Frank. The latter’s book from the 1950s, The Americans, and the paintings of Edward Hopper inspired Leth and Holmberg, who filmed in the same tableau-like style as for their first film, with no camera movements. John Cale wrote the original score for the film.