Lot 63, Grave C (2006) User Reviews

What it means to be lost to history

[mourningcommute · 8/10 · 29 May 2006]

Sam Green's name was immediately recognizable to me as the co-director of the feature documentary, The Weather Underground. That film felt stuck in history: heavy on reminiscences, but light on exploring the historical legacies we live with today. In Lot 63 Grave C, Green foregrounds the question of what it means to be lost to history.

The title of the short refers to the unmarked grave of Meredith Hunter, an 18-year old man who was murdered by Hell's Angels at the infamous Altamont rock concert in California. The Altamont murder is considered a metaphor for the "end" of Sixties idealism, but Hunter himself is lost to history. All that is known about Hunter is confined to the slow-motion footage of his murder, and a few newspaper articles Green captures ingeniously on fast-motion microfilm. The short manages to achieve what the The Weather Underground did not, asking what is lost when we only think of history in grand schemes.

Mood Piece

[xjonx · 4/10 · 13 May 2021]

Not so much a documentary but more of a mood piece. No real new information or expansion on what is available other than a view of the grave itself. Kind of interesting but easily skippable. You'll walk away maybe a little sadder, but no smarter on what happened to that guy, other than he died.

Everyone Moved on Except Hunter

[Michael_Elliott · 15 July 2015]

Lot 63, Grave C (2006)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

Very good documentary from Sam Green takes a look at Meredith Hunter, the man who was stabbed to death by the Hells Angels at the 1969 Altamont concert featuring The Rolling Stones. If you know anything about music history then Hunter's name is going to ring a bell plus the events of the concert were put into the film GIMME SHELTER, which is considered by many to be the greatest rock and roll documentary ever made. This 10 minute film is a very good one because it takes us to the grave of Meredith and we also get to see some of the original newspaper headlines of his death. If you're a fan of GIMME SHELTER then you'll certainly want to watch this short as it makes for a good follow-up on the man that was killed. I like how Green shot his portion of the film in B&W and the only color footage comes from the clips used of GIMME SHELTER. While this documentary really doesn't tell you any new details on the event or the man killed, it's at least a nice little homage.