Ralph Lemon takes unexpected routes to some of the most elemental aspects of being human. Loss. Connection. Solitude. Reflection. For example, Lemon spent eight years with 102-year-old Walter Carter, a former sharecropper, carpenter, and gardener in Mississippi. There are a lot of things you might expect to come of that time, but seeing Carter walking outdoors in a spacesuit is not one of them. Yet that’s what Lemon gives us, in a film on Carter’s life. He also gives context, however. Carter’s experience exploring the Mississippi Delta is compared to that of a cosmonaut... More >>>