Bombay Beach is a uniquely special documentary by music video director Alma Har’el that intimately captures the story of a small desert community living on edges of a wasteland that is California’s Saltan Sea. Despite the hopeless, barren and dying landscape that starves the town of Bombay Beach and its residents of life, Har’el finds poetic beauty in its characters, oddities and isolation; beauty that often manifests itself in fits of dance – yes, dance and it’s awesome. If legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog endorsed a girl scout troop, Har’el would be scout leader and I’d be buying all her cookies. The film features original music from Zack Condon of Beirut and Boy Dylan.
A New Englander through and through, Drew grew up in Connecticut / New Hampshire and got over educated in Boston. He also lived on a beach in Southern California for some years. Film, photography, music and literature monopolize his time these days. Drew lives in Brooklyn, NY, eats too many cheeseburgers at the Commodore and hopes to carry on simply one day on a big piece of land by the sea without the computer or YouTube.
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