Olive
A short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and redistributing food, and occasional other types of “waste”, across Atlanta, GA.
“Olive” is a short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and redistributing food, and occasional other types of “waste”, across Atlanta, GA. Presented in a quiet observational style, this film is both a character study of a committed and enigmatic volunteer, as well as an ethnographic work that places the audience in the heart of a decentralized, volunteer-run mutual aid network in a “post-COVID” American city.
- Year: 2023
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: LEVOMEL Productions LLC
- Keyword: hunger, atlanta, georgia, feminist, cinéma vérité, observational cinema, south, southeast, atlanta, georgia, food bank, observational documentary, short film, documentary, mutual aid, woman, documentary short
- Director: Lev Omelchenko
- Cast: Olive Hagemeier