Sunshine Superman Director Mara Strauch on BASE Jumping, Interview Technique and Recreations as an Imaginative Space

Piling off cliffs and from airplanes, locking arms in the air or tumbling singly, the divers in Mara Strauch’s compelling documentary, Sunshine Superman, are simply hypnotic to watch. Seen mostly in archival footage Strauch culled from 250 hours of material, their forms take on a near-abstract quality — a quality that seduced first-time director Mara Strauch to transition from experimental installation art work to documentary film. Her long-in-the-works Sunshine Superman, about pioneering BASE jumper Carl Boenish (he coined the acronym, which stands for building, antennae, span and earth) and his wife Jean is a mixture of love story, human mystery […]

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