POV · SEASON 4
Turn Here Sweet Corn
Episode 8 · 1991-07-09
- Documentary
Episode overview
A search for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers. The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a photograph of a suburban tract clothes-pinned to a cornstalk. Layered with visual and emotional paradoxes, the film juxtaposes innovative video techniques with slices of a simpler, threatened life, in an emotional and personal reflection on the colonization of cornfields by shopping malls.
60 minutes
Season 4 episodes
1. Absolutely Positive1991-06-18
2. Marc and Ann1991-06-25
3. Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song1991-06-25
4. Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing1991-06-25
5. Honorable Nations1991-07-02
6. Chemical Valley1991-07-09
7. Sea of Oil1991-07-09
8. Turn Here Sweet Corn1991-07-09
9. Tongues Untied1991-07-16
10. Berkeley in the Sixties1991-07-23
11. A Little Vicious1991-07-30
12. The Big Bang1991-08-06
13. Maria's Story1991-08-13
14. Homes Apart1991-08-20
15. Where the Heart Roams1991-07-30
16. Casting the First Stone1991-09-03
17. Short Notice: A Series of Short Films1991-09-03
