{"id":1835628,"date":"2024-12-30T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1835628"},"modified":"2025-01-01T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:32:20","slug":"a-stranger-quest-now-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/12\/a-stranger-quest-now-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stranger Quest Now Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A STRANGER QUEST by Andrea Gatopoulos (2023, Documentary) - with ENG, FR, ESP and ITA subs\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1042119027?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1042119027\">A Stranger Quest<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the documentary about David Rumsey by Andrea Gatopolous, is now available to the public online, having made its debut last year at the Torino Film Festival (previously) and made the rounds of the film festival circuit. In it, Rumsey, who turned 80 this year, ruminates about loss and mortality, filtered through various lenses: the loss of a friend, the legacy created by a lifetime of map collecting. And let me tell you, it\u2019s a <em>trip<\/em>. It\u2019s not so much about maps (though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/urbano-montes-1587-world-map-digitally-assembled\/\">the Urbano Monte reconstruction<\/a> makes several appearances), or map collecting, as it is about a particular map collector; and it approaches its subject edgewise. With long silences, and long scenes shot from enough distance that they make the viewer feel like they\u2019re eavesdropping on private conversations rather than watching a documentary, to say nothing of extended sojourns in Second Life, it\u2019s far from what I would have expected, but I cannot deny the overwhelming art of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Stranger Quest, the documentary about David Rumsey by Andrea Gatopolous, is now available to the public online, having made its debut last year at the Torino Film Festival (previously) and made the rounds of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/12\/a-stranger-quest-now-available-online\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,619],"tags":[1643,400],"class_list":["post-1835628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-collecting","category-movies-and-television","tag-documentary","tag-rumsey","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1820221,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/11\/a-stranger-quest-a-documentary-about-david-rumsey\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835628,"position":0},"title":"A Stranger Quest: A Documentary About David Rumsey","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 November 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cS_FFUDs7aw Map collector David Rumsey\u2014he of the eponymous website and Stanford map center\u2014is the subject of a new documentary directed by Italian filmmaker Andrea Gatopolous. A Stranger Quest premieres at the Torino Film Festival later this month and is scheduled for a 2024 release. The trailer, above, doesn\u2019t reveal much.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Map Collecting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Map Collecting","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/map-collecting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/cS_FFUDs7aw\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1605,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/stanfords-david-rumsey-map-center-opens-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835628,"position":1},"title":"Stanford&#8217;s David Rumsey Map Center Opens Today","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"As I mentioned earlier this month, the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University opens today (KQED coverage). To celebrate, there's a grand opening and open house tonight from 6 to 7 PM at the Center, which is located on the fourth floor of Green Library.\u00a0Presentations and workshops take place\u00a0on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rumseymapsposter","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rumseymapsposter-224x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2240,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/kqed-on-the-rumsey-map-center\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835628,"position":2},"title":"KQED on the Rumsey Map Center","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"More on\u00a0the David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last April:\u00a0KQED Radio's Michael Krasny interviews\u00a0David Rumsey and the Center's head and curator, G. Salim Mohammed (28 minutes). Previously:\u00a0Stanford\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center Opens Today;\u00a0David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Opens April 19.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1438,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/david-rumsey-map-center-at-stanford-opens-april-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835628,"position":3},"title":"David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Opens April 19","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"In 2009 it was announced that map collector David Rumsey, whose eponymous website\u00a0has been a must-visit for any map aficionado, would be donating his collection of 150,000 maps, plus digital copies, to Stanford University. Preparations to receive Rumsey's collection began last summer. 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