California Company Town (2008)

California Company Town plot

In the 1960s, Walt Disney, the founder of the California Institute of the Arts, dreamed of an American version of the German Bauhaus. Today CalArts stands out for its vision and its faculty with the likes of Lee Anne Schmitt. As a versatile, multidisciplinary artist – active in film, performance, photography and writing – Schmitt creates deeply lived works in which everyday elements of American life are transformed into cultural ritual. "California Company Town" takes a look at 14 Californian frontier towns abandoned by the companies that built them, and now only a faint memory of the American dream hangs. The region was sold as open space, an endless expanse of freedom and opportunity, but government and private interests were intertwined from the start. Central to Schmitt's essay is the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time, and the space between ideology and the reality of the places where we live.

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