In The Shadow of Paul Bunyan Trailer
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“In the Shadow of Paul Bunyan” tells the story of the Midwest's most idolized lumberjack. Constructed from a hodgepodge of archival artifacts, including decaying cartoons, home movies to rot, forgotten historical documents and original 16mm, it reveals a counter-history as tall as any tale Paul Bunyan ever told.
Paul Bunyan is commonly understood to be a folk character of the upper midwestern United States, where the locals have devoted a considerable amount of our characteristic industrious energy to him and his image. Any traveler of Michigan, Wisconsin or Minnesota knows at least a few of the hulking idols that dot the highways and constellations of our small, struggling towns. He appears as statues, paintings, memorabilia, and a theme park, all of them possessing a rough-hewn folk quality that is at times equally charming and frighteningly uncanny. Babe usually stands with him. The self-annointed “most famous statues” reside in my hometown of Bemidji, Minnesota, where it is said that they are the most photographed roadside attraction in the United States. Kodak said so, I was assured from a young age, so that settled that. For our impoverished county, this was a lifeline and an identity, which our chamber of commerce found suitably profitable.
As I thought more about that 'most photographed roadside attraction' claim, and the barely-concealed desire that comes with it, it became obvious to me that Bemidji had really gone to considerable lengths to project Paul's image as it's own. Of course, that image is conservative and traditional in all the worst ways. Paul Bunyan erases indigenous histories and makes a caricature out of the real turn of the century lumberjacks, many of whom were outright anarchists.
I wanted to tell my own story of how I was raised at Paul and Babe's feet, while spanning the histories of conquest and conflict that wilt in Paul Bunyan's shadow. Minnesota is home to lesser-known stories every bit as legendary as the timber beast, including the 1862 Dakota War and the Great 'Jack Strike of 1917. Roaming around for several years, I criss-crossed both the real and imagined landscapes of these marginal stories, collecting footage and archival materials that charted a different Minnesota folklore. A great thought hit me like a pile of flapjacks. Why not tell the story of Paul Bunyan that I myself always wanted to hear?
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