Production Assistant
Almost forty years after its first appearance in You The Better, the house returns as a character in Beckman’s new work Reach Capacity, now symbolising real estate. The economic and political elements and the structure of the film are closely associated with the most famous of all board games dealing with real estate, Monopoly. Its origins go back to the early 1900s, when Elizabeth Magie created a first version of what she called The Landlord’s Game. Magie’s game had two sets of rules, a Prosperity set and a Monopolist set (only the latter was kept by Parker Brothers when they further developed the game without her). Magie’s aim was to illustrate how society as a whole thrives when monopolies are banished and income is distributed equally. Beckman takes over Magie’s dual game structure by having her screen flip over when a monopoly is reached.
Editor
Peter Dunning é um individualista ao extremo, um solitário, alcoólatra, ex-artista que cortou relações com esposas e filhos. Sua empresa, mesmo nas noites de inverno rigoroso, são as ovelhas, vacas e porcos que ele tem em sua fazenda em Vermont. Peter é também um dos mais complicados e simpáticos temas de documentários. Um produto da contracultura dos anos 1960 cujo idealismo poético, desde então, azedou. Por toda a sua sinceridade, ele desliza em hábitos autodestrutivos, ficando bêbado e amaldiçoando os esplendores de uma paisagem pastoral que ele passou décadas nutrindo.
