Temporary Distortion

Rehearsal Footage

2007-08-19T00:17:00.001-04:00

Rose

2007-07-08T05:13:00.001-04:00

Mala Noche

2007-06-13T11:50:00.000-04:00

Some additional GVS research -

Tiny Theater

2007-05-10T15:55:00.000-04:00

In the beginning of May, Temporary distortion presented a 10min work-in-progress performance of Welcome to Nowhere as part of the Tiny Theater festival at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Although not open to reviews, one theater blogger had this to say:

One of the standouts (of the festival) includes bullet hole road, an excerpt of a longer piece by Temporary distortion. I'm very curious to see the whole piece, since the 10-minute excerpt was fascinating. To me, this is a very good example of experimental theatre done right...an incredibly hypnotic and engaging experience.

- jamespeak.blogspot

work-in-progress showing

2007-04-30T16:18:00.000-04:00

Temporary distortion is showing 10 mins of excerpts

from Welcome To Nowhere (bullet hole road)

as part of the Tiny Theater festival

at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater

May 3-5 at 7pm

(additional 10pm show Friday 4)

For more information visit: http://www.ontological.com

Or go here for tickets online: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/6425

Footage Test #46

2007-04-16T14:40:00.000-04:00

I really like this image for the background - what do you think?

Footage Test

2007-04-11T00:53:00.000-04:00

Road Test # 8

2007-04-05T11:23:00.001-04:00

This is an attempt to find a complimentary style to the luma-blue look from the other footage. My apologies to John Zorn.

Jim Morrison's HWY (1969, 51mins)

2007-04-04T17:37:00.000-04:00

If this video does not play properly ...check it out at:

http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/hwy_american_pastoral.htm

time lapse 2

2007-04-04T16:29:00.000-04:00

time lapse

2007-04-04T16:22:00.001-04:00

night stop

2007-04-04T16:09:00.000-04:00

here it is

2007-03-30T15:40:00.000-04:00

texaco, somewhere outside phoenix

2007-03-23T10:55:00.000-04:00

texaco phone booth

2007-03-23T10:48:00.000-04:00

An aerial photograph by Emmet Gowin

2007-03-21T10:29:00.000-04:00

"Off road traffic pattern along the north shore of the Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1988"

objects in this mirror

2007-03-18T00:16:00.000-04:00

Caution: Objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear!

Nostalgia born of the immensity of the Texan hills and the sierras of New Mexico: gliding down the freeway, smash hits on the Chrysler stereo, heat wave. Snapshots aren't enough. We'd need the whole film of the trip in real time, including the unbearable heat and the music. We'd have to replay it all from end to end at home in a darkened room, rediscover the magic of the freeways and the distance and the ice-cold alcohol in the desert and the speed and live it all again on the video at home in real time, not simply for the pleasure of remembering but because the fascination of senseless repetition is already present in the abstraction of the journey. The unfolding of the desert is infinitely close to the timelessness of film...

- Jean Baudrillard

You wait here, I'll be right back.

2007-03-15T16:33:00.000-04:00

redemption on the road

2007-03-14T17:20:00.000-04:00

From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the image of America to the world. By my definition, the road movie is a vehicle for either one or a small group of individuals who seek to escape the world they are living in and set out towards redemption on the road.

To read more: http://www.hackwriters.com/roadone.htm

The road movie reflects a cultural psychosis that not only is tomorrow another day, but the road is the passage to which a new beginning is possible, free from the bonds of the past.

i've been doing these terrible things

2007-03-12T17:54:00.000-04:00

sometimes i forget myself and i end up doing these terrible things.

last night

2007-03-12T17:52:00.000-04:00

Vanishing Point

2007-03-10T21:07:00.000-05:00

We can only aspire to these heights... A seriously badass trailer.

catching a ride

2007-03-09T17:42:00.000-05:00

One of the biggest troubles of hitchhiking is having to talk to innumerable people, make them feel that they didn't make a mistake picking you up.

another night

2007-03-09T17:38:00.001-05:00

Forgetfulness

2007-03-08T23:00:00.000-05:00

This is something I keep coming back to look at. I like the style of it a lot. After a few viewings, it's best with the sound off, as a silent piece, since the voiceover isn't all that inspired.