Men From Nowhere

Men From Nowhere is biographical journey that spans a century, Gentlemen From Nowhere is actually a heartbroken man's exploration for the romantic relationship in between him and his dad, a French holocaust survivor with PTSD. Filmed over 7 years in America and France for $2700, this bricolage documentary memoir makes use of footage from numerous formats and mediums, which includes camcorders, movie-capable point-and-shoot cameras, images and voicemails.

This powerful voyage of discovery and forgiveness will take us throughout the united states, to France and back. Down the way in which, the filmmaker confronts reminiscences of life like a homeless youngster, terrible knowledge about his mothers and fathers, and a globe of gentlemen – his father first of all and foremost – unmoored by historical past. “Men from Nowhere” is their story and his as well: a legend of the Holocaust, the ravages of war and the daily violence of poverty. Historical fact melds with competing autobiographical voices in a blend of deep hurt, tenderness and levity, irony, sheer cynicism and, at times, rollicking humor from the encounter of unremitting absurdity.
Soundtrack

The soundtrack uses songs by Persephone's Bees, Kenneth Pattingale and Jonathan Miller.
In regards to the Filmmaker

Laurent was born in San Francisco, CA, exactly where he lived until the age of two, at which level he was placed by his mom on the FBI desired record immediately after becoming abducted by his father. With the next 13 years, he lived underground, with his dad, around the run in the law. They hid out in France, Belgium and also the USA, under assumed identities. At the age of sixteen, the FBI discovered Laurent dwelling in Eugene, OR, and he was reconnected with his estranged family members, including his grandfather French Laureate Novelist Jean Malaquais. With his grandfather's encouragement, Laurent wrote the narrative of his childhood, and designed this powerful tale, into his very first characteristic size documentary film, "Men From Nowhere".

Laurent studied theater in the College of Southern California, along with with Sanford Meisner, before operating in low-budget cable tv like a segment/field producer, segment director and cinematographer. It was just after joining the L. a. based motion picture collectives Group one zero one Films and Filmmakers Alliance that he began generating scripted short movies and brief kind documentaries. These movies have screened at US and diverse international movie festivals including: The Tiburon International Film Festival; Vision Fest La; Group one zero one Film Pageant, L. a.; Off-Courts Trouville, France; Cannes Picture Competition Short Video Corner; and also the Competition Global du Motion picture D'Afrique.
Critiques

* "Laurent's new video is alternately humorous, gentle and excruciating. The picture he paints of your ties that bind is actually a strange and engagingly maddening 1, an acid love letter to a father who put Laurent by way of hell nevertheless gave him a deeply human fable to tell, that of an iconoclastic lifestyle stubbornly resided." -Stephen Norrington

* "Very engrossing, intriguing and touching - characters and tales so wonderful, they couldn't possibly have already been invented. What an odyssey! I think it is remarkable, and worthy of being noticed." -Robert Illes

* "Men From Nowhere" is actually a unpleasant narrative, told amazingly to begin with individual from your man who still lives it. It's a yarn that, like a long extension cord, will get much more tangled the significantly more it unravels, but finally shines with superb inspiration while in the resiliency for the filmmaker. - Tom Kramer

"This ıs really a remarkable picture: a entirely unique myth of two misplaced generations, a dad and son hopelessly entangled, on a tragic family odyssey that extends in the Holocaust to Haight-Ashbury and past." -Terry Bisson