Space Coast

La costa del espacio
Ross McElwee, Michel Negroponte
United States of America
1979
90'
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Description

Michel Negroponte and McElwee follow three residents of Cape Canaveral, Florida, several years after the phasing out of the Apollo moon missions: a salty newspaper reporter who has witnessed 1,600 consecutive launches; an out-of-work maintenance man who now leads a motorcycle gang; and the owner of a small construction company who sidelines as the clown-host of a local kids television show. Negroponte and McElwee transcend the “God, guns, and family” clichés of small town America... (MoMA)

Awards and festivals

- Whitney Museum - New American Filmmaker Series
- Museum of Modern Art - Cineprobe Film Series
- Berlin Film Festival
- FILMEX - Los Angeles International Film Exposition
- Houston Film Festival
- Athens International Film Festival - Special Merit Award
- North Carolina Film Festival - Best Film Award

Biography of the director

Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee received his BA from Brown University followed by an MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. He freelanced for a few years, shooting for documentarians D.A. Pennebaker in Washington DC, and John Marshall in Namibia before beginning to direct his own documentaries.

Ross McElwee has made eleven feature-length documentaries as well as several shorter films. Sherman's March won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. Time Indefinite won Best Film Award in several festivals. Six O'Clock News won Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival. Bright Leaves premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. Photographic Memory premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.

McElwee's films have been included in the major festivals of Berlin, London, Vienna, Rotterdam, Florence, Quito, Sydney, Seoul, and Wellington. Retrospectives include the Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; and États généraux du film documentaire in Lussas, France.

Ross McElwee teaches filmmaking at Harvard University where he is a professor in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

Michel Negroponte
Michel Negroponte is a producer and director, known for Jupiter's Wife (1995), Silver Valley (1983) and An Autobiography of Michelle Maren (2015). He met Ross McElwee in MIT’s graduate filmmaking program where they collaborated on Space Coast (1980).

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May

Wednesday 9

  • 20:00 h
  • Filmoteca Española. Cine Doré Sala 2
Data sheet
Director
Ross McElwee, Michel Negroponte
Language
English - Subtitled in Spanish
Editing
Ross McElwee
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