Embers & Dust (2016) via DUST on You Tube
IMDb meta-data is 11 minutes, rated 6.6 by 63 cinemtizens.
Genre: Sy Fy.
Verdict: Charming.
In Appalachia an eleven-year old Gene dreams of the stars on the 1938 autumn evening when on the radio Orson Welles broadcasted The War of the Worlds. Gene’s share-cropper father, beset by the Depression, struggling to eke a living from a hard scrabble farm, aided by his emaciated wife, hounded by a foreclosing bank, all of them stunted by malnutrition, encourages Gene to dream of the stars. Touching.
‘I got all misty,’ Dobie. If there is an explanation for the title, I’d be glad to learn it.
The parents stepped straight out of the photographs in James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), once read never forgotten. Yes, I know this book has been subjected to a pygmy attack of late. It is never too late for pygmies to sup on the dead.