Male Magnetism: Stranded in Canton

Director: William Eggleston

2005 / 76min / Digital

A dreamy dumpster dive into the demimonde of Memphis in the early-to-mid 1970s, Stranded in Canton is the work of pioneering photographer (and local legend) Eggleston, who drank deeply of the seedy side of nightlife of his city while equipped with a Sony Porta-pak, the first commercially available camcorder, capturing vignettes of the freaks, bohemians, and boozers who made up his social circle in bleary black-and-white, the 30+ hours of material he accrued finally having been edited into a 77-minute cut released in 2005, which would act as a vital influence on Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers (2009).

Digital copy courtesy of Eggleston Art Foundation

Introduction by guest curator Andrew Norman Wilson