A DAY AT THE SPEEDWAY

Directed By - Gregory Mitnick & Nathaniel Johnson

The absorbingly cinematic “A Day At The Speedway” is an observational documentary depicting a single day at a small racetrack in the Catskill Mountains, near the site of the original Woodstock Music Festival. Much like in a Bruegel painting, a tableau of ordinary life revolves around an important community event—in this case, the race. As day turns to night, the hypnotic waves of cars circling the short oval track induces a collective state of meditative mania.