Directed By: Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty
2011 | 71 min
United States

Saturday, November 12: 8:00 pm

People Center
Filmmakers in Person | New York City Premiere

A series of tableaux in black and white, Empty Quarter is a 16mm portrait of Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties in southeast Oregon, a region that represents one-third of the state's landmass yet holds less than two percent of its population. Portland filmmakers Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty alternate extended takes of the economy in motion-cows crowded in a stockyard, cowboys preparing for a rodeo, workers packing onions for transport-with local voices describing their histories, struggles, and pleasures. As the images and stories accumulate, the quiet beauty of the landscape and rich diversity of the communities belie the monotonous mechanisms that have come to dominate their daily lives.

Preceded by
The End of the World
(Kres Šwiata)