" In our constant trawl of the archives to find fresh and interesting material on the mythology of the road trip, we recently came up with this obscure but spookily resonant flick. HWY: An American Pastoral is a 50 minute experimental piece "
Long Live the Kings
We’ve been following our friends at Blitz Motorcycles for a while now.
They’ve grown adept – not only at building nice looking bikes – but presenting them and their lifestyles with a certain panache.
No surprise then, that the latest cinematic flick that’s been doing the rounds lately is very nice indeed.
There’s a strangeness at the heart of the work, though.
It’s an off-kilter cultural mashup that astounds and confuses – are these European cats traversing the rockies or the Alps? Are these guys winding through the Pyrenees or the Sierras – over mountain and into the desert and on and on and on?
Not that it matters, of course.
The film below evokes the beauty of a road trip beautifully – out there in the wind, on the road, with no destination but The Now fixed firmly in the mind.
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