Men From Nowhere

Men From Nowhere is biographical journey that spans a century, Males From Nowhere is mostly a heartbroken man's exploration with the romantic relationship in between him and his father, a French holocaust survivor with PTSD. Filmed over seven many years in America and France for $2700, this bricolage documentary memoir uses footage from multiple formats and mediums, which includes camcorders, movie-capable point-and-shoot cameras, pictures and voicemails.

This compelling voyage of discovery and forgiveness requires us throughout the usa, to France and again. Combined the way in which, the filmmaker confronts memories of life as being a homeless youngster, terrible knowledge about his mothers and fathers, and a world of guys – his father to start with and foremost – unmoored by background. “Men from Nowhere” is their scenario and his as well: a fable of this Holocaust, the ravages of war as well as the everyday violence of poverty. Historical reality melds with competing autobiographical voices in a mix of deep damage, tenderness and levity, irony, sheer cynicism and, at times, rollicking humor from the encounter of unremitting absurdity.
Soundtrack

The soundtrack utilizes songs by Persephone's Bees, Kenneth Pattingale and Jonathan Miller.
About the Filmmaker

Laurent was born in San Francisco, CA, exactly where he resided until the age of two, at which stage he was positioned by his mom on the FBI desired checklist right after being abducted by his dad. Towards the next 13 years, he lived underground, together with his dad, on the run through the law. They hid out in France, Belgium and also the USA, beneath assumed identities. In the age of sixteen, the FBI identified Laurent residing in Eugene, OR, and he was reconnected with his estranged family, such as his grandfather French Laureate Novelist Jean Malaquais. Along with his grandfather's encouragement, Laurent wrote the story of his childhood, and created this powerful tale, into his earliest function length documentary picture, "Men From Nowhere".

Laurent studied theater at the College of Southern California, and likewise with Sanford Meisner, prior to functioning in low-budget cable tv like a segment/field producer, section director and cinematographer. It was after joining the Los angeles based picture collectives Group 101 Films and Filmmakers Alliance that he started producing scripted short movies and quick type documentaries. These films have screened at US and diverse worldwide motion picture festivals which include: The Tiburon Global Motion picture Competition; Vision Fest Los angeles; Group 101 Movie Competition, La; Off-Courts Trouville, France; Cannes Picture Festival Short Video Corner; and then the Festival International du Picture D'Afrique.
Critiques

* "Laurent's new film is alternately funny, mild and excruciating. The image he paints of this ties that bind ıs really a odd and engagingly maddening one, an acid really like letter to a dad who set Laurent via hell however gave him a deeply human chronicle to tell, that of an iconoclastic lifestyle stubbornly lived." -Stephen Norrington

* "Very engrossing, intriguing and touching - characters and stories so excellent, they could not potentially happen to be invented. What an odyssey! I believe it's exceptional, and worthy of being seen." -Robert Illes

* "Men From Nowhere" is known as a painful narrative, told amazingly to start with particular person from the man who nonetheless lives it. It's a myth that, like a lengthy extension cord, gets way more tangled the alot more it unravels, but eventually shines with outstanding inspiration within the resiliency from the filmmaker. - Tom Kramer

"This may be a exceptional movie: a completely special myth of two lost generations, a father and son hopelessly entangled, on a tragic household odyssey that extends through the Holocaust to Haight-Ashbury and beyond." -Terry Bisson