All Sides of the Road (2012)

All Sides of the Road derives from a twelveminute 3D video capture of Old Highway 101 entering and departing Dewitt Iowa After the title image the cameras are pointed directly down at the highway which becomes a rushing microcosm of the world that evokes landscapes both of America and of the mind The resulting spectacle is both utterly photorealistic and phantasmagoric In addition to landscape this digital film also evokes earlier forms of analog film especially those of the American avantgarde for the physical properties of the highway are like those of celluloid In motion the textures of asphalt and concrete look a lot like film grain while the lane markers flickering by are easily mistaken for the lines and letterings on film leader rushing through the projector gate