Dead People (1995) : distribution, intrigue et streaming

Released in 1995, Dead People is a documentaire film directed by Roger Deutsch, running about 18 minutes.

What it’s about. Filmed in 1974 and edited and released in 1983 (and then rereleased by its director in 2005), DEAD PEOPLE purports to document the final years of Frank Butler, a local fixture in the depressed burg of Ellicot City with a particular fondness for drink and tales of the dead. Over hazy 16mm footage two decades later, Deutsch adopted a painfully unsentimental view of his early approach, colored as it was by notions of ethnographic film and an undercurrent of fetishism for a man he considered somehow more "alive" than himself. While it chafes against notions of authenticity in documentary and incisively hints at the complicity of the subject in inventing his own history, DEAD PEOPLE simultaneously oozes nostalgia, transcending its own judgment as a gauzy memorial for the man Deutsch once called a friend.

Who’s in it. Dead People stars Frank J. Butler as Himself.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Dead People page.

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