"I'm more of a radical, and a rebel, most of the time politically." The Film Desk has revealed the trailer for an essay documentary called Henry Fonda for President, from an Austrian filmmaker named Alexander Horwath. This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival last year and opens in the US at the Anthology FIlm Archives starting in April if anyone is interested in watching. Horwath is a film scholar, historian, and curator from Austria directing his first film. Henry Fonda for President is a 3-hour-long unconventional doc about the famous actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982). Fonda's life, roles, and last 1981 interview voice narrate a journey across America's history from 1651 to the 1980s presidency era (a great deal of time to cover), personifying the nation's complexities through a road trip from Fonda, NY right to the Pacific. They add: "Equally adept at cultural criticism, historical accounting, and political analysis, Henry Fonda for President also incorporates elements of found-footage filmmaking and landscape cinema, as it combines a wide array of revelatory archival material (including film & TV clips, Fonda's final 1981 interview, news reports, and more) with Horwath's own footage of sites throughout the US." Not sure this will be that engaging to watch unless you're very seriously into American history and politics. But have a look at some doc footage anyway. // Continue Reading ›