On the Road Going Through

While interweaving complex images a dense stereo soundtrack and brief interviews with local people On the Road Going Through is designed to provide a portrait of a fragment of rural life in Iowa With traffic on the road functioning as the drone On the Road Going Through creates a meditative impressionistic view of a composite small town in Iowa While actually shot in many towns the tape implies a unified single town that is after all consistent with the subjects shared concerns The people talk about kids dogs traffic and storms as traffic repeatedly passes by in the background