Exquisitely photographed and paced, director and Garrett Scott Grant alumnus Ben Powell’s BARGE is a document of a month-long hitch on a Mississippi towboat bound for New Orleans. Aboard we find a hearty and hard-working crew—each member with a unique backstory and perspective on his role on the team, as well as his role in the vital industry along the United States’s chief shipping artery. Employing long, uninterrupted pans and suffused with magic-hour light, Powell’s film is a meditative microcosm of America and the American Dream, and provides a winning and winsome account of life atop the mighty Mississippi. Mark Twain once declared that there are two ways to see a river; BARGE makes it three.  TM