BROKEN MEAT
Alan Granville worships at the alter of the Manhattan Bridge, to a disco beat. Featuring Robert Attanasio.
Documentary portrait of beat poet Alan Granville
50 min. b/w. Produced and Directed by Pola Rapaport. 1990. DP Wolfgang Held ASC
“Wonderful!”
- Kurt Vonnegut
“Every great urban filmmaker has a personal metaphysics of the city, a sense that the synergies and mysteries of urban life can find their ideal form in images. That’s what Pola Rapaport reveals in her first feature, ‘Broken Meat…’”
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker
US Theatrical Premiere Metrograph Cinema, New York
Prizes
Prize Winner, IDFA Amsterdam • Award of the Press, Message to Man Leningrad Film Festival • Best Cinematography, Oberhausen •
Best Documentary, New Orleans Film Festival • Special Mention, Hawaii Film Festival
Broadcasts
Sundance Channel, WNET/ Ch 13 Reel New York, SBS/Australia, ZDF/Germany
Festivals
Sundance Film Festival • Edinburgh • Pesaro • Cork • Munich Filmmuseum • Robert Flaherty Seminar