The royal road
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A cinematic essay set against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes. The Royal Road offers up intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo alongside a primer on Junipero Serra's Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War. Featuring a voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner.
Credits
- Cast
- Voiceover, Jenni Olson; voiceover cameo, Tony Kushner; Film Collaborative (Firm), publisher (film distributor); Olson, Jenni, director, producer, screenwriter (voice actor); Tony Kushner (voice actor); Marcarelli, Paul, 1970- producer; Julie Dorf (producer); Sophia Constantinou (director of photography); Dawn Logsdon (editor of moving image work); Lisbeth. consultant Haas; Steven W. Hackel (consultant); Sawyer. director Steele; Lively, Jim, sound designer (recording engineer)
Complete catalog record
Original source: Title from title frame. | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014. | Writer-director-producer, Jenni Olson ; producer, Julie Dorf ; cinematographer, Sophie Constantinou ; editor, Dawn Logsdon ; executive producer, Paul Marcarelli ; historical advisors, Lisbeth Haas, Steven Hackel ; voiceover director, Sawyer Steele ; sound designer/voiceover recording, Jim Lively.
Release: Los Angeles : The Film Collaborative, [2015]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (65 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet. | DVD video 4 3/4 in. | polychrome | laser optical NTSC | video file DVD video region 1
Edition: Screening copy.
Subjects: Lesbians -- California -- San Francisco | Discoveries in geography -- Spanish | Lesbians | Nostalgia | California -- History -- To 1846 | California -- History -- 1846-1850 | California -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish | California | California -- San Francisco | Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958) | To 1850
Release: Los Angeles : The Film Collaborative, [2015]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (65 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet. | DVD video 4 3/4 in. | polychrome | laser optical NTSC | video file DVD video region 1
Edition: Screening copy.
Subjects: Lesbians -- California -- San Francisco | Discoveries in geography -- Spanish | Lesbians | Nostalgia | California -- History -- To 1846 | California -- History -- 1846-1850 | California -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish | California | California -- San Francisco | Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958) | To 1850
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
Record added 2026-11-08 20:56:10