stills from Stranded in Canton, 1973
© William Eggleston
In 1973, William Eggleston picked up a Sony PortaPak and shot the intimate, black and white footage that would become Stranded in Canton, a 76 minute film documenting the soul of Memphis and New Orleans. The film was recently remastered in collaboration with filmmaker Robert Gordon and released by Twin Palms as a book/DVD package. For those of you who haven’t seen the film already, I highly recommend it.
While browsing the Eggleston Trust website the other day, I noticed an update to the “Films” section, which includes 14 short clips from Stranded in Canton. See those right here.
And, if you’re interested, you can backorder the book/DVD here.
2 Comments
November 2, 2008 – 8:58 pm
This documentary contains an excerpt from “Stranded in Canton”
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3975842/William_Eggleston_in_the_Real_World_(2005)
November 6, 2008 – 12:35 am
I see some overlap with the clips that Almereyda used but on their own these look terrifying! Did that man bite the head off of a chicken? Is viewing the film as tense and uneasy as some of these clips?