Resident Exile

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Director: Alexandra Anthony, Ross McElwee, Michel Negroponte
Release date: 1981-03-11
Runtime: 28m
Language: English
Status: Released
Country: United States of America

About Resident Exile

Resident Exile is a 1981 movie in the Documentary genre, directed by Alexandra Anthony, Ross McElwee and Michel Negroponte. It has a runtime of 28 minutes. It holds an average rating of 8.0/10 from 1 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Resident Exile in Mexico — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

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

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How long is Resident Exile?+

Resident Exile has a runtime of 28 minutes (28 minutes).

When did Resident Exile come out?+

Resident Exile is a 1981 movie directed by Alexandra Anthony, Ross McElwee and Michel Negroponte.

What genre is Resident Exile?+

Resident Exile is Documentary film.

Who directed Resident Exile?+

Resident Exile was directed by Alexandra Anthony, Ross McElwee and Michel Negroponte.