Shore2Shore, 22:46 min, MiniDV, color, sound, 2022-23
A road trip diary composed of incidental scenes recorded when my camcorder was looking up, mostly from a the car as Luke and I drove shore to shore. Featuring skies, rain, bridges, palm trees, bats, windmills, herons, pelicans, a game of 20 questions↓, and my father’s childhood home. Along the way someone survived a jump from the Mississippi River Bridge and I set the camera down at the site of Robert Smithson’s death in Amarillo. See also: Camera-Train.
(🎶 uh huh, uh huh 🎶)
Is it a network of individuals?
(🎶 uh huh, uh huh 🎶)
(🎶 uh huh, uh huh 🎶)
Yes
Is it an organization?
No.
Is it a religion?
No.
Is it a cathedral?
No. You say a network of people, I’ll say, I’ll say—
Is it…
Go ahead.
Is it a government? Is it the post office?
No no no. Is it, you said, “is it A government?”
Yeah.
Yes. There’s that., yeah.
But it’s not the whole country, it’s just the government of a country?
No, not a country.
The go-, “THE GOVERNMENT”?? It’s referred to as “The Government?”
well…government is involved in this thing.
(🎶 Colleen Green: My boyfriend’s got the darkest eyes that you’ve ever seen 🎶)
Is it like a department of state, of some kind?
Uh, no.
(🎶 darker than midnight on Halloween 🎶)
Is it big? So could I touch it?
Yeah
Is it prison?
Prison? No
(🎶 I tell him every day that he’s the only one I wanna see 🎶)
A sanitarium? A castle?
(🎶 and his eyes look right through me 🎶)
Like, uh, is it a medieval fiefdom?
No
(🎶 my baby’s got the longest eyelashes in the world 🎶)
It’s not, is it a building?
It’s not a single building
(🎶 long enough to shield himself from another girl🎶)
Is it a collection of multiple buildings?
Yes
Is it like a university or college?
No
(🎶 oh there’s no better way to keep appearances preserved 🎶)
Is it a village? a town?
it’s…
A city?
Yes
That’s it? Well, is it a specific city?
Yes
(🎶 a razor to an optical nerve 🎶)
Oh my god. There are so many…
There are alot yeah.
Ok, um, In this city, do they…
(🎶 he’s got…🎶)
I would…do you want a hint?
No