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Roads and Bridges
DIRECTOR: Abraham Lim
USA 1:43:00 35mm Color English 
 Executive Producers: Robert Altman, Marc H. Glick, Abraham Lim
Boasting a career that’s included directing videos for The Roots and editing COOKIE’S FORTUNE, Abraham Lim’s foray into feature filmmaking begins auspiciously with this meditative missive on race in middle America. Set in the broad landscape of Lim’s native Kansas, ROADS AND BRIDGES examines the smoldering racial tensions that lie within a rural road crew. The only Asian there, Lyndon Johnson Lee struggles against the racism—both overt and covert—directed against him, and meets Daryl, the crew's lone African American. With the older, more accomodating Daryl repressing his rage in the hopes of gaining promotion and Lee containing his by refusing to speak to anyone, the two represent simultaneously opposite and intertwined poles of racial tactics. The metaphor of roads and bridges, as places of crossing and change, plays out as both men struggle to find new directions in their troubled lives. Presented by Robert Altman (who was so impressed with Lim's short FLY that he hired him as an editor), ROADS AND BRIDGES unveils the multiracial world that exists outside America's urban centers, one usually avoided by filmmakers but which speaks the same language of protest, rage and uncertainty.
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