North by Current (2021)

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.

Released March 1, 2021 86 min 18+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.drug-addiction, tmdb.addiction, tmdb.rural-area, tmdb.incarceration, tmdb.rural-life, mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.fresh + 2 more, imdb.death, imdb.town

Watch Providers: Fandor

Production Companies: Field of Vision, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Tribeca Film Institute, American Documentary, Open Society Foundations + 2 more, Catapult Film Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Fund

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English