Men From Nowhere

Men From Nowhere is biographical journey that spans a century, Guys From Nowhere is known as a heartbroken man's exploration of the romantic relationship between him and his dad, a French holocaust survivor with PTSD. Filmed more than seven years in America and France for $2700, this bricolage documentary memoir employs footage from numerous formats and mediums, this includes camcorders, movie-capable point-and-shoot cameras, pictures and voicemails.

This persuasive voyage of discovery and forgiveness normally requires us across the us, to France and again. Coupled the way in which, the filmmaker confronts reminiscences of existence as a homeless youngster, horrible knowledge about his dad and mom, and also a world of adult men – his father first and foremost – unmoored by background. “Men from Nowhere” is their scenario and his too: a legend belonging to the Holocaust, the ravages of war and also daily violence of poverty. Historical reality melds with competing autobiographical voices in a combine of deep harm, tenderness and levity, irony, sheer cynicism and, at times, rollicking humor while in the face of unremitting absurdity.
Soundtrack

The soundtrack uses songs by Persephone's Bees, Kenneth Pattingale and Jonathan Miller.
In regards to the Filmmaker

Laurent was born in San Francisco, CA, in which he lived till the age of two, at which point he was placed by his mom around the FBI wanted record soon after becoming abducted by his dad. For the next 13 years, he lived underground, with his dad, around the run in the law. They hid out in France, Belgium as well as USA, beneath assumed identities. In the age of sixteen, the FBI identified Laurent residing in Eugene, OR, and he was reconnected together with his estranged family, for example his grandfather French Laureate Novelist Jean Malaquais. Along with his grandfather's encouragement, Laurent wrote the scenario of his childhood, and produced this compelling story, into his primary characteristic length documentary movie, "Men From Nowhere".

Laurent studied theater on the College of Southern California, and likewise with Sanford Meisner, before doing work in low-budget cable tv as a segment/field producer, section director and cinematographer. It was soon after joining the La dependent movie collectives Group a hundred and one Movies and Filmmakers Alliance that he started creating scripted quick films and brief form documentaries. These films have screened at US and several worldwide film festivals consisting of: The Tiburon Global Movie Competition; Vision Fest La; Group one zero one Motion picture Festival, L. a.; Off-Courts Trouville, France; Cannes Picture Festival Quick Movie Corner; and also the Pageant International du Motion picture D'Afrique.
Reviews

* "Laurent's new motion picture is alternately humorous, mild and excruciating. The image he paints from the ties that bind may be a unusual and engagingly maddening one, an acid love letter to a father who put Laurent through hell nevertheless gave him a deeply human account to tell, that of an iconoclastic lifestyle stubbornly resided." -Stephen Norrington

* "Very engrossing, intriguing and touching - characters and stories so outstanding, they couldn't perhaps are actually invented. What an odyssey! I think it is impressive, and worthy of becoming seen." -Robert Illes

* "Men From Nowhere" is known as a painful tale, told amazingly primary particular person through the guy who still lives it. It's a legend that, like a long extension cord, gets even more tangled the even more it unravels, but in the end shines with great inspiration within the resiliency for the filmmaker. - Tom Kramer

"This may be a amazing movie: a entirely unique fable of two misplaced generations, a dad and son hopelessly entangled, on a tragic family members odyssey that extends through the Holocaust to Haight-Ashbury and past." -Terry Bisson