Kelly Reichardt: “Elaborated Time“

Kelly Reichardt is one of the contemporary cinema’s greatest poets. Her films are contemplative, observational, and deeply empathetic. In 2011, she gave an interview discussing her film Meek’s Cutoff. She described her approach as seeking an “elaborated time.” Her remarks could well apply to her whole body of work. In this video essay, I try to let her comments and films speak for themselves in articulating their almost neorealist exploration of time and emotion. I have also included some samples from work that is connected to or in thematic dialogue with the films of Kelly Reichardt. Patreon: Twitter: