A filmmaker writes a love letter to his editor—while cutting 3,000 miles of footage.
Lyrical video letter by Robert Kramer to his friend Paul McIsaac captured during the editing of “Route One/USA”.
Direction
Kramer turns editing room boredom into lyrical cinema.
Writing
Voiceover that feels like eavesdropping on genius.
Director
Robert Kramer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Route One/USA ultimately ran 255 minutes; this 35-minute 'letter' was Kramer's way of staying sane during the edit.
Kramer was a radical leftist filmmaker who'd fled to France in 1969; Dear Doc finds him exiled in the editing room, still searching for America.
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