Niagara

2008. USA. Directed by Alec Soth. From Magnum in Motion. 10 min. Alec Soth, who has used a large-format camera to document places and people across the country, creates a stylish meditation in Niagara—mundane and majestic moments, loneliness in tenderness alike, at the titular site of what he calls “spectacular suicides and affordable honeymoons.” Screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on July 1, 2017 as part of Magnum Shorts: American Stories. Accompanies Beyond the Frame: International Cinema by Magnum Photographers.