What’s the USA? | New collection on ARTS.FILM

With the American election in mind, this week we turn our attention to a neighbor that is sometimes fascinating, sometimes alarming. For this collection, we will be guided by a simple and singular question: what exactly are the USA?

Visionary painters (Hopper: An American Love Story or Georgia O’Keeffe: une artiste au Far West)? An urban culture that spreads across the globe (All the Streets are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding)? Legendary actors (Jodie Foster — Hollywood dans la peau or Citizen Jane, l’Amérique selon Fonda)? A society haunted by the horrors of its past (Toni Morrison et les fantômes de l’Amérique)? A bit of all that. But it is also, as Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President recounts, a country where the 39^th president was friends with Bob Dylan. And to think that the next one could be buddies with Elon Musk.

We say nothing, but we think otherwise.

What’s the USA?
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President — Mary Wharton
All the Streets are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding — Jeremy Elkin
Hopper: An American Love Story — Phil Grabsky
Jodie Foster — Hollywood dans la peau — Camille Juza, Yal Sadat
Citizen Jane, l’Amérique selon Fonda — Florence Platarets
Georgia O’Keeffe : une artiste au Far West — Evelyn Schels
Toni Morrison et les fantômes de l’Amérique — Claire Laborey
Frank Capra, Il était une fois l’Amérique — Dimitri Kourtchine
Gateways to New York — Othmar H. Ammann and his bridges - Martin Witz