Buffalo Common

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“I love Bill’s voice. I mean literally his voice, soothing and smart, feels like a neighbor telling you a cool story. And the voice in his visuals, his film style. He makes a diary film fun, sometimes the humor is in what you see and how he edits, sometimes in in what tells you in narration, in thought. I like what he’s thinking and you get to the bottom of his subjects. He never acts like he knows it all, rather he has the same observations as you and then takes it further with a poetic connections. Filmmakers too often try to explain it all. Sometimes its good to just connect on a human level.” – Mike Plante, Sundance Short Film Programmer

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Release Date:	Jun 1, 2001
Running Time:	22 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

synopsis

With the end of the Cold War, North Dakota's fearsome arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles suddenly found itself outmatched not by the Soviets, but by the budget cutters in Washington, DC. In his 2001 film, Bill Brown heads to The Peace Garden State to watch the nuclear weapons that haunted his childhood dreams get yanked out of the ground. Years before today's shale oil boom, he visits a state whose dwindling population and failed farm economy has lead to talk about turning the whole place into a reserve for buffalo.