Wherever You Go, There We Are
12:00, Video, 2017
In this experimental travelogue, efforts to sound human and look natural instead become artificial. The scenery is provided through photo-chromed vintage postcards, displaying scenic North American landscapes and the rise of infrastructure and industry. Aspiring to look more realistic by adding color to a black and white image, the postcards are instead documents of the fantastic. The road trip is narrated by an automated correspondent (all dialogue is taken from spam emails), his entreaties becoming increasingly foreboding and obtuse, in a relentless effort to capture our attentions.
SCREENINGS + EXHIBITIONS:
Haggerty Museum of Art, Nohl Fellowship Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
Projections, New York Film Festival, New York, NY
Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Yebizo Festival of Art + Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Imagine Science Film Festival, Spectacle Theater, Oct. 12-19, 2018, New York, NY
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
EXiS 2018, EX-Now Program, Seoul, Korea
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
Onion City Film And Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Cosmic Rays Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
Flicker & Wow: Delphi Falls - shorts program, The Public Cinema, Knoxville, TN
Syros International Film Festival, Syros, Greece
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