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LaPorte, Indiana documentary festival premiere! · Jun 29, 03:17 PM

Festival Premiere!
LaPorte, Indiana at the Indianapolis Film Festival!
Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 12:00pm
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 3:00pm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis

First public screening!
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 7:30pm
LaPorte Cinema: 608 Colfax Ave, LaPorte Indiana
Tickets will be available beginning July 9th at B+J’s American Cafe in LaPorte.

The producers are working hard to set up some Chicago, New York, and national screenings. We’ll keep you posted with dates and times of future screenings, as well as the eventual LaPorte DVDs.

Here is the trailer:

LaPorte, Indiana Trailer from Joe Beshenkovsky & Jason Bitner on Vimeo.

And for a peek at “Space or No Space” from the documentary click here.

The book is available now from Princeton Architectural Press.

FOUND magazine editor Jason Bitner has made it a habit of picking up after us, walking down the back alleys of our lives, and accumulating all that we’ve thrown away or mislaid. One afternoon not long ago, after lunch at a small Midwestern diner, he stumbled onto a forgotten archive. In the back of the restaurant were box upon box of studio portraits of the townspeople of LaPorte, Indiana—over 18,000 in total.

A few reviews of the book…

Chicago Tribune:

“A delicious slice of American pie to be savored.”

Wall Street Journal:

“If there was an American look 40 or 50 years ago—at least one recognizable throughout Middle America—these faces may be it. Nothing edgy, smirking or brash. But much that is earnest, benign and hopeful.”

BoingBoing:

“I can’t recommend Laporte, Indiana highly enough for fans of photography, ephemera, or curiosities. Looking at these anonymous people is deeply moving.”

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