Ghosts and Gravel Roads

Ghosts and Gravel Roads
Directed byMike Rollo
CinematographyTerryll Loffler
Edited byMike Rollo
Distributed byCanadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Release date
  • March 30, 2008 (2008-03-30)
Running time
16 minutes
CountryCanada

Ghosts and Gravel Roads is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Mike Rollo and released in 2008.[1] The film depicts various abandoned farm buildings in rural Saskatchewan, with a hand pinning up archival photographs suggestive of the people who might once have lived or worked there.[1]

Rollo is a film production professor at the University of Regina, and makes experimental documentary films exploring "alternative approaches to documentary cinema – methods which thematize vanishing cultures and transitional spaces."[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2008,[3] and was the winner of the Silver Mikeldi at the 2008 Zinebi - Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival.[4]

  1. ^ a b Mike Everleth, "Movie Review: 2008 ATA Film & Video Festival: Short Film Reviews (Part 2)". Underground Film Journal, September 29, 2008.
  2. ^ Quinn Bell, "Sask Independent Film Awards". The Carillon, December 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "TIFF's Top Ten". Vancouver Sun, December 17, 2008.
  4. ^ "Premios en los festivales españoles de Gijón, Bilbao y Cuenca". Noticine, November 30, 2008.