Ley Lines

Directed by Patricia Gruben

Canada, 1993 (documentary / experimental, 80 minutes, colour, English)

Film Description:
"Taking her own last name as her primary organizing principle in approaching the past, Patricia Gruben has constructed one of the most inventive personal archeologies and family histories ever filmed. Over six years in the making, Ley Lines eschews conventional narrative storytelling in favour of associative and cumulative revelation."
-- David McIntosh (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Patricia Gruben
Produced by:	Patricia Gruben
Cinematography:	Patricia Gruben, Kirk Tougas, Bob Aschmann
Film Editing:	Patricia Gruben
Music:	Martin Gotfrit
Production Company:	Noema Productions

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Notes about Ley Lines

Shown at the Festival of Festivals (Toronto) in 1993.

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Quote about Ley Lines

"The mode [of Ley Lines] is rather difficult to describe: a self-reflexive, experimental documentary that is part autobiography, part biography, part social history, part natural history, and more. And, as these names imply, it is concerned with the past, or, more precisely, the confluence of pasts that compose various presents."
-- Susan Lord (source)

Bibliography for Ley Lines

Brief Sections of Books

Lord, Susan. "The Scene of the Crime: Genealogies of Absence in the Films of Patricia Gruben." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (pp. 157-160)