Ellis Island
Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk.
Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk.
Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk.
Ellis, a fourteen-minute film directed by JR and written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, tells the elusive story of countless immigrants whose pursuit of a new life led them to the now-shuttered Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. Following its opening in 1902, approximately 1.2 million people passed through the facility, where the Statue of Liberty can be seen from the windows. Languishing in a sort of purgatory awaiting their fate, many were never discharged.
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him, but once on the island, things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies. Gradually, it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.
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