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The Nome Road System
Rainer Komers, Germany, documentary, 26 min., 2004
Canadian Premiere
 Take a strange journey along the Nome Road System in Alaska. Powerfully evocative imagery. Stark ambient sounds. A strange, dreamlike world. With assured direction the filmmaker creates a hypnotic rhythm, constructs a poetic logic to the story, and submerses us in an experimental doc that is both accessible and fascinating. The camera witnesses normal, prosaic activities: a man has a medical check-up; people go on a picnic; dogs are fed; fish are skinned; a fun bathtub parade moves down main street – and throughout: the recurring, ever-present Nome Road System. As an analysis of human activity within a landscape, the film brilliantly achieves a mute intensity. A small masterpiece. – R.S
Rainer Komers obtained a degree in Film Studies at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. He also has a
egree in Photography Studies at Essen University. Rainer has been a freelance filmmaker and photographer since 1981.
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