A behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings, staff and fans of Michigan Stadium, the largest football stadium in north America. Filmed both on and off the field in Ann Arbor - a small college town with a huge research university and a history of political radicalism - by director Kazuhiro Soda, Markus Nornes and Terri Sarris plus 14 student filmmakers against the backdrop of the 2016 US election and the rise of Donald Trump, The Big House presents a riveting, energetic, often funny microcosm of modern American life, without resorting to drawing any obvious conclusions.
Also showing as part of our Kazuhiro Soda season - Campaign, Mental, Peace, Inland Sea
dir. Kazuhiro Soda
year: 2018
country: USA
run-time: 119 minutes
Doors 17:15
Film 17:45
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
“Entertainingly cacophonous and teemingly busy... an observational chronicle of one particular stadium — and the myriad people who come there for work and play — and an anthropological snapshot of the country” ”
“Compelling and cohesive”
“Large and ambitious”
“Incisive, multifaceted”
“Surprisingly cohesive, omniscient document of an American phenomenon ”