Un-American Dream
“Magnum photographer Matt Black charts America’s hidden geography of poverty”
2022•10m•Released
Documentary
Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the veil that keeps America’s poor in the shadows. Beginning in his home region of the Central Valley, his extensive documentary project, American Geography, unravels in a series of black-and-white photographs that poetically capture communities living below the poverty line. Un-American Dream is a moving image survey, filmed by director Joppe Rog, throughout California’s Central Valley.
Director
Joppe Rog
Languages
English
Studio
Nowness
Cast
Matt Black
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