Photo: Godfrey Cheshire's Moving Midway
The historical and the personal converge in Moving Midway, Godfrey Cheshire's analytical and emotive portrait of ancestral roots and antebellum mystique. Shot during the New York City-based critic's 2004 visit to his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, the documentary contemplates the South as a source of heritage both invaluable and conflicting: The plantation as a trove of history, family, and tradition and as an often problematically romanticized image. Midway is the name of the plantation mansion that's been the home of the filmmaker's family since the 1800s, and when plans for a new strip mall threaten its place, the title of the film is literalized. Fernando F. Croce
The historical and the personal converge in Moving Midway, Godfrey Cheshire's analytical and emotive portrait of ancestral roots and antebellum mystique. Shot during the New York City-based critic's 2004 visit to his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, the documentary contemplates the South as a source of heritage both invaluable and conflicting: The plantation as a trove of history, family, and tradition and as an often problematically romanticized image. Midway is the name of the plantation mansion that's been the home of the filmmaker's family since the 1800s, and when plans for a new strip mall threaten its place, the title of the film is literalized. Fernando F. Croce
