Jenni Olson’s poetic film essay is less a confession than an abdication of authorial responsibility.
Many of the excellent documentaries screened at BAFICI articulate a surprisingly coherent argument about nonfiction filmmaking and its relationship to the real.
Art of the Real 2015: The Royal Road, The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk, & Becoming Anita Ekberg
by Sean Nam
Fundamentally, Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road is a paean to the Bay Area landscape.