MOTORIST 1989 60:00 min.version was re-edited for television, 1990.

featuring Richard Marcus

Written and Directed by Chip Lord

DP: Jules Backus

Music: The Residents, Terry Allen

edited by Chip Lord

 

MOTORIST follows the driver of a 1962 Thunderbird as he

crosses the Southwest and arrives into Los Angeles, all the while commenting on the road and his personal history with cars.

Richard Marcus plays the motorist with a nervous intensity

that captures the "white line fever" of a cross-country road trip.

"This sad, funny, gorgeous-looking feature-length videotape tracks the end of an American dream."

 

  • Selected to and exhibited at:
  • The Whitney Biennial, 1989
  • Portland Film/video Center, Oregon
  • Ann Arbor 8mm film and video Festival
  • Broadcast on "TheTerritory", KUHT-TV, Texas 1990
  • Dallas Video Festival
  • 4th Video Bienale, Lubljana, Yugoslavia, 1989
  • The London Film Festival, 1989
  • The Berlin Film Festival, 1990
  • ICA Cinematheque, London, 1990
  • Alternative Film & Video 1989, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  • American Film Institute - Screening Room West, Los Angeles, 1990
  • Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, 1991
  • Broadcast on KQED-TV, 1991
  • Pacific Film Archives
  • The HydeCollection- "Contemporary Landscapes", 1997
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