Deborah Stratman
2008, 16mm film, 52 minutes
A meditation on the milieu of elevated threat, addressing national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, freedom and the possibility of personal transcendence. The film forces together culturally acceptable icons of heroic national tradition with the suggestion of unacceptable historical consequences, so that seemingly benign locations become zones of moral angst.



![[ fullscreen ] O'er the Land, film still](http://adweb.aa.uic.edu/media/images/medium/dstrat1_0_0_p485_i2000_320.jpg)