Taking Shelter
Synopsis
“Taking Shelter” is a feature film made of other feature films - Canadian feature films. Over 400 Canuck flicks from the 1970s and 1980s - the notorious ‘tax shelter’ or ‘springtime for Hitler’ era - will be broken down and recombined into a new, single storyline, in which aliens posing as Americans invade Canada and conspire to turn the lives of everyday people into cinema! Hilarious, compelling, tightly edited fragments of countless forgotten science fiction, horror, docudrama, romance and action films will splinter, recombine and transform before the eyes of the viewer. “Taking Shelter” is an unprecedented and groundbreaking experiment in ‘fair use’ found-footage cinema.
Key Information & Fast Facts
- Director
- Jonathan Culp
- Original Title
- Taking Shelter
- Country of Origin
- Canada
- Spoken Languages
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Jonathan Culp
Department Leadership Roster
Jonathan Culp
Director
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What is Taking Shelter about?
“Taking Shelter” is a feature film made of other feature films - Canadian feature films. Over 400 Canuck flicks from the 1970s and 1980s - the notorious ‘tax shelter’ or ‘springtime for Hitler’ era - will be broken down and recombined into a new, single storyline, in which aliens posing as Americans invade Canada and conspire to turn the lives of everyday people into cinema! Hilarious, compelling, tightly edited fragments of countless forgotten science fiction, horror, docudrama, romance and action films will splinter, recombine and transform before the eyes of the viewer. “Taking Shelter” is an unprecedented and groundbreaking experiment in ‘fair use’ found-footage cinema.
Who directed Taking Shelter?
Taking Shelter was directed by Jonathan Culp.
Who stars in Taking Shelter?
The principal cast of Taking Shelter includes Not specified.
When was Taking Shelter released and how long is it?
Taking Shelter was released in 2014 with a total runtime of 1h 23m.