Short film

Quarry
1970 · 12 min
A quiet, watchful drift through a scarred landscape where idle youth and old industrial stone share a strange, melancholy calm.
- Directed by
- Richard P. Rogers
- Overview
- This portrait of an abandoned quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, captures the striking natural beauty of the site as it explores the social rites of the young people who gather along its rugged shores to create leisure in what was once a place of toil. -Harvard Film Archive
- How it feels
- Melancholic, warm and eerie. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Isolation, nature, work, coming-of-age
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Richard P. Rogers