Postcard from America

Directed by Massimo Bacigalupo

With Marjorie David, Linda Dunn, Daniel Javitch, Leila Javitch and Jonas Mekas

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could be a more remote country, and the inspiration is avowedly Japanese (Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep North). Implicitly, the film-maker compares himself to an old peddler of drawings, Sam, hawking his wares at the entrance of Columbia’s Butler Library.