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The Spirit of the People (2025)A Documentary film about Shelby Lee Adams
showing @ The Midtown Cinema (Harrisburg, Pa)
Sunday November 15, 2026 @ 7pm
Admission = $12
Trailer:
Filmmaker James Hollenbaugh will be presenting the film in person. Showing w/ Lost Horse Valley (Caleb Smith) and David Fair Is The King (Skizz Cyzyk).
The Spirit of the People
2025 / 57 minutes / Video / Color / Sound
Photographer Shelby Lee Adams reflects on his life-long journey to seek out identity by capturing portraits of Appalachia’s mountain people through the lens of his camera. Adams’ need to document the unseen self-providers creates a desire to keep alive a culture that is slowly disappearing. As Adams prepares his archive for future generations, he relives his childhood roots through annual visits to the hollers of Eastern Kentucky.
“Shelby Lee Adams’ journey as a photographer is told with a careful nuance by Hollenbaugh.”
- Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Lost Horse Valley
2020 / 3 minutes / Super 8 / Color / Sound
An in-camera document of a space with a spirit.
David Fair Is The King
2016 / 8 minutes / Video / Color / Sound
David Fair and his brother Jad co-founded the legendary, highly-influential, underground band, Half Japanese. Decades later, David is a retired Bookmobile librarian, spending his days frequenting thrift stores, making art and music, getting inventive with home decorating, and always looking on the bright side of things.
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Event venue
Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily St,Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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