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2004 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Tracing the Decay of Fiction is an archeological exploration of the Hotel Ambassador, a vintage building now in ruins that was erected in 1920 and played a crucial role in the development of Los Angeles. Well known for its glamorous Cocoanut Grove nightclub where Hollywood stars and movie moguls mingled with foreign dignitaries and downtown power brokers, this hotel was also the site of one of our nation's most disturbing events—the 1968 assassination of Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy. Visitors wander through these abandoned rooms encountering cultural traces of the historical traumas and the personal stories that occurred there. Inside the Ambassador, borders between past and present, history and fiction blur.

Screening Details

Section: Online
Film Type: Online
Country: U.S.A.
Run Time: 74 min.

Credits

Engineering
Sound Design
Director
Associate Producer
- JoAnn Hanley
Executive Producer
- Marsha Kinder
Video Producer
- Liang-Yin Kuo
- Tania Trepanier
Editor
- Liang-Yin Kuo
- Tania Trepanier
Digital Media Compression
- Priscilla Pena Ovalle
Research
- Myrton Running Wolf
Rights Clearance
- Myrton Running Wolf

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