Road Not Taken

2009 • Directed by

Linda Scobie

A sense of unease likewise permeates Linda Scobie's beautiful and mesmerizing Road Not Taken, a delicate slice of archival footage that the artist degraded, broke down and tinted. Amid a stream of men walking somewhere -- the Soviet Union? -- in the first half of the 20th Century (another guess), one scared, beaten-down figure stares at the camera, piercing our heart.