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Opening today on the local film-society circuit:

'CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN' Rating 2 1/2 out of 4

From 2003 to 2008, Lee Anne Schmitt traveled to 14 California towns, mostly forgotten and abandoned. She looks at communities founded by companies to house their workers, as well as utopian settlements attempted by socialists. In the 1890s, one such colony on the Kawea River christened a landmark sequoia "The Karl Marx Tree." The government later named it after Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman.

For her allusive landscape essay, Schmitt collects traces. "Prayer Changes Things" reads an outdoor sign she films in Trona. She tunes in local radio and records announcements for the Anti-Communitarian ...

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