39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale Of Interminable) is an experimental film that challenges and subverts the typical elements of documentaries, thus making us all reflect upon important questions in documentary filmmaking such as What material can be trusted, can the voice-over narrator be trusted, where does documentary end and fiction start? Besides these questions, that the film raises, it has managed to convince the jury by it’s unusual and alienating collage of super 8 footage, by its investigative style and suspense. The film is putting audiences continuously on the wrong track yet consistently intriguing, leaving the viewer bewildred and pensive. Through its hybrid form, 39-A: A Travel Tale Of Interminable is showing inventive ways of dealing with documentary footage and transforming reality into film. – Webcuts.11
Weirdest of all is 39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale Of Interminable), which seems specifically designed to make the viewer feel as if he or she is experiencing some abnormal brain activity. In the short, Old Super 8 footage of a trip to the Kennedy Space Center is overlaid with an animated roadmap and a narration track that sounds as if it’s been run through Babel Fish half a dozen times. It’s proof—if more were needed—that finding the festival’s hidden treasures sometimes requires a little digging. – The Onion A.V. Club
… a high brow spoof on art theory, deconstruction, documentaries, and reality itself. – D Magazine
Evan Mather’s short film is one mindfuck of a travelogue. – Film Threat
In this insightful autobiographical mashup of Super-8 home movies, vibrant animated cartography, and Dutch pidgin-speak, a family’s 1981 vacation to the Kennedy Space Center is chronicled in exquisite detail. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2010, 7:24)
DIR Evan Mather NARRATOR Matthew Clayfield MUSIC Protman, Troy Sterling Nies (“American Portraits Theme”) SCREENINGS “COME IN!: A Design Intervention” (July 14-August 30, 2010) at Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles, onSCREEN (A+D), Architecture and the City Festival (AIA San Francisco), DOCOMOMO Georgia (Atlanta), SXSW 2011, 2011 Dallas Film Festival, Best Documentary Webcuts.11 (Berlin).
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