Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield, 2010)

One of the most important American films of 2010. We swift through conversations of different people who knew Cory, a 24 year old dead from an unexpected overdose. The conversations paint a beautiful mosaic of this troubled community in Baltimore. In the process Porterfield also crafts a brilliant exploration of fiction and documentaries. How these different mediums engage and interact with audiences. The ending is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful endings of contemporary American cinema.

As a part of my "Avant-Garde Glimpses in Narrative Cinema" series I posted still from the ending here: trashaesthetics.wordpress.com/AGGINC/puttyhill