Moving Midway, Godfrey Cheshire’s documentary about a North Carolina “plantation in transit,” opened Friday at the Rialto.
New York Times critic A.O. Scott described Moving Midway as “partly a family memoir, partly a historical essay and partly the record of an improbable feat of engineering.”
Cheshire, who was born and raised in Raleigh, hosted last night’s FilmSPARK, interviewing local filmmakers and presenting their work. He encouraged their efforts, complimented the event, shamelessly plugged his own film, and rallied the audience to “all go out for a drink together afterwards.”
Cheshire’s film explores the identity of the Southern plantation. “A relic of a bitter, divided past” and “an impediment to the modern South’s frenzied effort to turn itself into an anonymous landscape of superhighways and strip malls,” the plantation is also “a site for understanding and reconciliation, a meeting place of past and present, black and white.”
Moving Midway is set to play at theaters and festivals across the country this fall.
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