'Resting Places', A Documentary Film About Roadside Memorials - Produced By Melissa Villanueva & Narrated By Liam Neeson

<div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="600"> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top"> <h4><a name="home"><img border="0" src="restingplaces.jpg" align="right" title="'Resting Places', A Documentary Film About Roadside Memorials" alt="'Resting Places', A Documentary Film About Roadside Memorials" width="413" height="538"></a><b>"RESTING PLACES" -<br>  THE DOCUMENTARY</b></h4> <h2>"<b>Resting Places</b>" is a documentary film about <b>roadside memorials</b> and the controversy that surrounds them.   Narrated by <b>Liam Neeson,</b>  "Resting Places" was produced and directed by <b>Melissa Villanueva</b>, and written by <b>J. Michael Kipikash</b>, who was also executive producer. Director of photography was <b>Joe Mandacina</b>. </h2> <h2>"Resting Places" was an official selection at: </h2> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="78"><img border="0" src="../festivallaurelsplain-sm.jpg" width="75" height="52"></td> <td valign="top"> <h2><b><a href="http://www.kansasfilm.com/festival/guide.html" target="_blank">2007 Kansas International Film Festival</a> </b></h2> <h2><b><a href="http://santafefilmfestival.com/Filmlist3" target="_blank">2007 Santa Fe Film Festival</a>   </b></h2> <h2><b><a href="http://bigsky.bside.com/?_view=_filmdetails&filmId=46614737" target="_blank">2008 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival</a></b></h2> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <h2>More information:</h2> <ul> <li><h1> <a href="http://www.restingplacesdoc.com/" target="_blank">OFFICIAL SITE</a>   <br>  </h1> </li> <li><h1><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0981340/" target="_blank">IMBD PAGE</a> <br>  </h1> </li> <li><h1><a href="#press" target="_self">PRESS COVERAGE</a> <br>  </h1> </li> <li><h1><a href="#behindthescenes" target="main">BEHIND THE SCENES</a></h1> </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top"> <hr size="1"> <h4><a name="press">   <br> </a> PRESS ABOUT "RESTING PLACES" <br> AND THE PHENOMENON OF ROADSIDE MEMORIALS</h4> <h4> </h4> <h2><b><img border="0" src="2004-NM-016v2.jpg" align="right" title="A descanso on the High Road to Taos; New Mexico" alt="Image of a descanso on the High Road to Taos; New Mexico" width="250" height="310"><a href="http://www.newwest.net/main/article/big_sky_documentary_film_festival_5_dont_miss_docs/" target="_blank">"Big Sky Documentary Film Festival:  5 'Don’t Miss' Documentaries"</a> - New West, Feb. 12, 2008</b><br> "Don’t you love it when a documentary lifts a little corner on a debate you didn’t know was raging over something you’d only barely noticed? Well, that’s what Resting Places does...Director Villanueva presents the opposing views in balance, though natural human empathy would seem to tip that balance well away from the attorney who regards descansos on public land as an insult to the public and a harbinger of social chaos. Yet he, too, has a surprising story to tell—one of many in this surprisingly intriguing little doc."   </h2> <h2>   </h2> <h2><b><a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/16_C1_BRIEFS_11_16_07" target="_blank">"Film explores use of ‘descansos’ " - SantaFeNewMexican.com, Nov 16, 2007</a></b><br> "A documentary that explains why descansos — roadside memorials — are seen more and more worldwide will be shown at the Santa Fe Film Festival.  <b>Resting Places</b>, produced by Kansas City filmmaker Melissa Villanueva, includes photographs from around the world, including Santa Fe. The narrator is Oscar-nominated actor Liam Neeson. . ." </h2> <h2>  </h2> <h2><b><a href="http://www.kccommunitynews.com/articles/2007/09/07/overland_park_sun/entertainment/c-all-ent-glenwood.arts.txt" target="_blank">  "Glenwood Arts Hosts Kansas International Film Festival" - KC Community News, Sep 7, 2007</a></b><br> "...Some standout titles from the eclectic montage of 47 independent and documentary films are:... <b> 'Resting Places,'</b> about the worldwide phenomenon of roadside memorials which often pit grieving families against church vs. state activists. Liam Neeson narrates the closing night film ..." </h2> <p>  </p> <h2><b><a href="http://www.kccommunitynews.com/articles/2007/08/08/wednesday_sun/news/b-ws-news-resting.places.txt" target="_blank">"Resting Places" - KC Community News, Aug 8, 2007</a></b><br> "The project started about five years ago with filmmaker Joe Kipikash, then living in Kansas City. He often drove by a roadside memorial in his neighborhood, Villanueva said.'“It was not well-kept,” she said, “He couldn’t understand why someone would want to advertise death to the world.” Kipikash learned the memorial marked where a 3-year-old child had died.  “The family moved away because of the grief,” Villanueva said. “It changed his view of roadside memorials.” Kipikash did a screenplay about the experience. 'I felt it would take a documentary to tell the stories about people who feel a need to maintain memorials and the people who want to take them down,' Villanueva said." </h2> <h2>   </h2> <h2><img border="0" src="restingplaces-pic2.jpg" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 0px 5px 5px" title="The filmmakers sought to contact and learn the story of roadside memorial keepers" alt="The filmmakers sought to contact and learn the story of roadside memorial keepers" width="305" height="247"><a href="http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/992" target="_blank"><b>"Let these resting places rest in peace", by Mike Hendricks - Kansas City Star, Feb 28, 2007</b></a> <br> "... Villanueva and Kipikash, executive producer, trace descansos back to ancient Spanish funeral rituals. Indeed the first region in the United States where roadside memorials were first prevalent was the Southwest. But in recent decades, the practice has spread throughout the United States and beyond.   'Why the sudden surge?'..."  </h2> <h2>   </h2> <h2><a href="http://134.193.176.202/UTD/UTD_2-28-2007.mp3" target="_blank"><b>"Up To Date" with Steve Kraske - KCUR Kansas City FM 89, Feb 28, 2007</b> [<i>audio - mp3 file</i>]</a> <br> Steve Kraske hosts a conversation about the role of roadside memorials with filmmakers Melissa Villanueva, producer of the documentary <b> "Resting Places"</b>, Joe "Kip" Kipikash, director of the feature film "Descansos", Dr. Sylvia Grider, a retired professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University, and Kansas State Senator Phil Journey, sponsor of a bill concerning roadside memorials...  </h2> <h2>  </h2> <h2><b><a href="http://www.flaglerproductions.com/rpdoc/LiamFlagRelease.pdf" target="_blank">"Oscar-Nominated Actor Tells Descansos Stories" - Press Release, Nov 2006</a></b>  <br> "...In <i><b>Resting Places</b></i>, Liam Neeson tells the story of three families who maintain roadside memorials, and the attorney who wants all such markers torn down. The documentary was produced by Melissa Villanueva and was shot in true high-definition on the Sony CineAlta..." </h2> <h2>   </h2> <h2> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/national/06shrine.html?pagewanted=print" target="_blank"><b>"As Roadside Memorials Multiply, a Second Look", by Ian Urbina - New York Times,  Feb 6, 2006</b> </a>  <br> "...While many states have adopted rules regarding the memorials in recent years, Melissa Villanueva, a filmmaker from Kansas City, Mo., who is working on a documentary about the memorials, said the laws were almost never enforced.  "We found lots of people who dislike the memorials but very few willing to actually take them down," Ms. Villanueva said. 'Most people can't help but feel like these are sitting on hallowed ground'..." </h2> <h2> </h2> <h2 align="center">[<a href="#">BACK</a>]</h2> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top">  <p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top">  <p> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <hr size="1"> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" height="429"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left" height="429" valign="top"> <h4><a name="behindthescenes">   </a><br>  BEHIND THE SCENES OF "RESTING PLACES" - THE DOCUMENTARY:<br>  A WEEKEND ON THE SHOOT</h4> <h2 align="left"> <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534861-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534861.jpg" title="Approaching the Milwaukee airport after turning around out over Lake Michigan" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>  <font size="3">I</font>N 2004,  I was contacted by an independent filmmaker, Joe "Kip" Kipikash, who told me he was planning on making a pair of films -- a narrative drama, and a documentary -- centering on the subject of roadside memorials.  He wanted to discuss using some of the images in my <a href="../descansos/index.htm" target="_top">Descansos</a> series, in the films.   I was glad to help out.  </h2> <h2 align="left"> <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534863-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534863.jpg" title="Killing time in Milwaukee, waiting for my connection" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>In the summer of 2005, after Kip's dramatic movie, "Descansos", had finished shooting and was approaching completion, I was contacted by Kip's associate, <b>Melissa Villanueva</b>, another young independent filmmaker from the Kansas City area.  Melissa had been first assistant director on "Descansos", and she had been enlisted by Kip to produce the documentary, which was to be called <b>"Resting Places"</b>. </h2> <h2 align="left"> Melissa asked if I could come down to Kansas City to be interviewed for the film. I jumped at the chance to get involved. I flew out of Madison early Saturday morning, and after flying the wrong way to make my connection through Milwaukee, I finally got going in the right direction, and arrived at Kansas City in mid-morning.</h2> <hr width="50%" noshade size="1"> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/33394866-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-33394866.jpg" title="A roadside memorial I was taken to visit after I got in" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=520,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534865-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534865.jpg" title="A roadside memorial I was taken to visit after I got in" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>I was picked up by a crew member, Kyle, who drove me around the KC area looking for roadside memorials -- and the rest of the crew.  They were out shooting an interview with <a href="http://ilaaan.free.fr/" target="_blank">Ilan Ginzburg</a>, a French photographer who has also made a study of roadside memorial, and who had also been flown in to be part of the film. </h2> <p align="left"> </p> <h2 align="left">Ilan's evocative images can be found at his on-line exhibit,  <a href="http://www.murblanc.org/passage/" target="_blank">"Lieux de passage"</a> .  Ilan has also now posted a collection of his photographs of this weekend, <a href="http://www.murblanc.org/passage/usa/" target="_blank">here</a>. </h2> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534869-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534869.jpg" title="Ilan with his new digital camera" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>After we all connected at lunch, we went out to shoot some scenes of me photographing a roadside memorial. <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534868-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534868.jpg" title="At lunch with Ilan, Melissa, and Kip" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a> </h2> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <hr width="50%" noshade size="1"> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534872-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534872.jpg" title="The crew setting up a location shot" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>On location, I was supposed to pull over in a van, get out and walk over to the memorial, and start shooting photos.  </h2> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534877-O.jpg"> <img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534877.jpg" title="Same location; setting up a shot from across the road" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>Easier said than done.  I needed to pull the van up and stop at the exact point the camera's focus was set at.   I had a little trouble "hitting my mark"  (my excuse was the van's touchy accelerator pedal).  That eventually being done,  I managed all right, I think, walking around and following Kip's directions.  </h2> <h2 align="left">I could have just pretended, dry-firing for the video camera,  but as long as I was there, I took a number of exposures of the memorial that was the focus of the shot.  </h2> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=530,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/32935732-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-32935732.jpg" title="A trooper pulls up to check out what's going on" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=420,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/32921165-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-32921165.jpg" title="The ''hard hat'' memorial which was the subject of the location shoot" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>Just as we were finishing, a trooper pulled up to check out the suspicious activity.  Kip explained to him that it had all been cleared in advance. </h2> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <hr width="50%" noshade size="1"> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534882-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534882.jpg" title="Setting up the 'darkroom' backdrop for my interview" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534879-O.jpg"><img title="Setting up the 'darkroom' backdrop for my interview" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534879.jpg" title="Setting up the 'darkroom' backdrop for my interview" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>After this, we headed back to the facilities of <a href="http://www.flaglerproductions.com/" target="_blank">Flagler Productions</a>, which is handling the production, where I was interviewed in front of a <i>faux</i> darkroom set.  </h2> <h2 align="left">I can't remember much about the interview.  I am counting on the magic of editing to make me sound intelligent and thoughtful.</h2> <p align="left"> </p> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534884-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534884.jpg" title="Ilan and Kip looking over photos of roadside memorials" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>Here, Ilan and Kip are going over some of Ilan's prints.  </h2> <h2 align="left">Ilan's images of roadside memorials in his native France are also set to appear in the movies.<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=520,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/32931281-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-32931281.jpg" title="At dinner Saturday night with Melissa, Kip and Ilan" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a> </h2> <h2 align="left">The day ended with great conversation with Melissa, Kip and Ilan over a great Kansas City steak dinner.  </h2> <p align="left"> </p> <hr width="50%" noshade size="1"> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534886-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534886.jpg" title="Kip, Ilan and Melissa; Sunday AM, before shooting at O'Dowd's" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>The following morning, we were up early for filming of an interview on location at O'Dowd's, a bar in downtown Kansas City. <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534903-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534903.jpg" title="A trooper wanders by, unconcerned at the activity outside a bar on a Sunday AM" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a></h2> <h2 align="left"> </h2> <h2 align="left"> </h2> <h2 align="left"> </h2> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534894-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534894.jpg" title="Ilan and I wandered around The Plaza in KC, shooting" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>While the location was being set up, Ilan and I wandered the Plaza area of old Kansas City, putting our new digital cameras to some work.  </h2> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534890-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534890.jpg" title="Ilan and I wandered around The Plaza in KC, shooting" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>Then we returned to O'Dowd's, where the final preparations were being made for shooting the interview. </h2> <h2 align="left">      </h2> <h2 align="left"> </h2> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534918-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534918.jpg" title="Eddie Delahunt" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>The interview subject for the morning was <a href="http://www.eddiedelahunt.com/" target="_blank">Eddie Delahunt</a>, self-proclaimed "bon vivant, scientist, big game hunter, [and] runway model".<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534916-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534916.jpg" title="Eddie making some notes while waiting for his interview to start" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>  </h2> <h2 align="left">Eddie is a Dubliner now resident in Kansas City -- where he is, in actuality, a musician.  </h2> <h2 align="left">Eddie was to talk about soldiers' memorials and other related traditions of Ireland. </h2> <h2 align="left"> </h2> <h2 align="left"><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534912-O.jpg"><img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534912.jpg" title="Crew members in place for their roles as 'bartender' and 'customer' in the background" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>I  was able to shoot some  scenes inside O'Dowd's during preparation for shooting Eddie's interview. <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534914-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534914.jpg" title="Director of Photography Joe Mandacina checks the shot" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a> </h2> <h2 align="left"> Soon, however,  it was time for me to catch my flight back to Madison.</h2> <h2 align="left"> </h2> <p align="left"> </p> <h2 align="left"> <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534922-O.jpg"> <img alt="TITLE" height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534922.jpg" title="Melissa and the rest of the crew in place, ready to start shooting" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a>As <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534907-O.jpg"><img height="98" src="../thumbs/kc-31534907.jpg" title="Ilan shoots a crew member who is watching the monitor" width="98" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 5px" /></a> mentioned above, more images of this weekend as viewed through Ilan's eyes and camera, can be seen at Ilan's parallel reminiscence of this weekend, <a href="http://www.murblanc.org/passage/usa/" target="_top">"Resting Places"</a>.  (There are some interesting connections between the photos:  for example, here is <a href="http://www.murblanc.org/passage/usa/P8060119.html" target="_blank">Ilan's photo</a> of me around the time I took <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=410,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/32921165-O.jpg"> this photo </a>;  and here is <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://duolian.smugmug.com/photos/31534907-O.jpg"> my photo</a> of Ilan around the time he took <a href="http://www.murblanc.org/passage/usa/P8070022.html" target="_blank">this photo</a>.) </h2> <p align="left"> </p> <h2 align="left">  </h2> <h2 align="center">[<a href="#">BACK</a>]</h2> <hr size="1"> <blockquote> <h2 align="left">More about roadside memorials, the documentary "Resting Places", and its showing at the Santa Fe Film Festival,  at my blog, here:</h2> <blockquote> <h2 align="left"><a href="../descansos/index.htm" target="_blank">Descansos: Roadside Memorials on the American Highway</a></h2> <h2 align="left"><a href="http://catherwood.typepad.com/whats_all_this_brouhaha/2007/06/my_15_minutes_o.html" target="_blank">"Resting Places"</a></h2> <h2 align="left"><a href="http://catherwood.typepad.com/whats_all_this_brouhaha/2007/11/resting-places-.html" target="_blank">"Resting Places" goes to the Santa Fe Film Festival</a></h2> <h2 align="left"><a href="http://catherwood.typepad.com/whats_all_this_brouhaha/2007/11/utah-roadside-m.html" target="_blank">Court battle overroadside memorials nears decision</a></h2> </blockquote> </blockquote> <h2 align="center">[<a href="#">BACK</a>]</h2> </td> </tr> </table> <hr size="1"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" > <tr> <td width="25%" valign="top"> <h1 align="left"><a href="../photos/index.htm" target="_top"><img border="0" src="../spiral-small2.jpg" align="left" hspace="12" vspace="2" width="34" height="52">PHOTOGRAPHY<br> BY DAVE NANCE</a>    </h1> </td> <td width="65%" valign="top"> <h1>    <a href="../photos/specialex.htm" target="_top">SPECIAL EXHIBITS</a>  :   <a href="kc.htm" target="_top">"RESTING PLACES" - THE DOCUMENTARY</a>  :   </h1> <h1>    <a href="#">ABOUT THE FILM</a>    |     <a href="#press">PRESS</a>    |     <a href="#behindthescenes">BEHIND THE SCENES</a></h1> </td> <td width="10%" valign="top"> <h1 align="left"><a href="../contact.htm" target="_self">CONTACT</a></h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" colspan="3"> <p align="center"> </p> <h1 align="center"><a href="../index.htm" target="_top">the old same place</a></h1> <h1 align="center"><a href="../copyrightnotice.htm" target="_self">text and images © 2004 by David B. 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