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Carny

Alison Murray, Director

2007 | 74 |

Documentary filmmaker Alison Murray and photographer Virginia Lee Hunter venture behind the bright lights, whirling rides, fast-food concessions and the thrill of the midway to explore the exotic and mysterious netherworld of the carnies. Over the course of a single season, CARNY profiles fairground workers, entertainers, freaks and lowlifes who call a traveling carnival their home. With poetic insight and gritty realism, CARNY offers a rare glimpse of a unique and vanishing subculture and the unforgettable characters who inhabit it.