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Resident Exile

1981

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This short film, made with my friends and filmmaking partners, Michel Negroponte and Alex Anthony, was commissioned by PBS's innovative TV Lab in 1980. The three of us saw Kazem Ala, an Iranian student and political exile, briefly interviewed on a local cable access show in Austin, Texas and were very moved by his story. We spent a month filming his day to day life in Houston, during the Iranian-American hostage crisis of 1980. The film was meant to describe in subtle ways what it is to be a political exile in times of political crisis. PBS found it to be a little too subtle, and declined to air it nationally, but the film was televised on various individual PBS outlets, and seeing it recently, I was struck by how, a generation later, we're still dealing with this same situation - the clash between Islam and the West. The Presidents and Ayatollahs may have changed, but politically, things are still at crisis level. - Ross McElwee

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries

United States of America

Spoken Languages

English

Quick Facts

Release Date	March 11, 1981
Status	Released
Language	EN
IMDb ID	tt0337090

Cast

Key Crew

Ross McElwee

Producer

Alexandra Anthony

Director

Michel Negroponte

Producer

Michel Negroponte

Director

Ross McElwee

Director

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