Welcome to Nowhere (the film)

A new website has been launched for Welcome to Nowhere (the film).

Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) is a feature length experimental film and accompanying immersive video-art installation based on Temporary Distortion’s hit show of the same name. The original live performance premiered in New York City in 2007 and has since been performed throughout Austria, Canada, and France. At this time Welcome to Nowhere (the performance) continues to tour internationally.

The film takes place during a non-specific late-20th century era in the American Midwest. The characters we meet are by-products of the archetypes found in the road movie film and literature genres. They are: the drifter, the outlaw, the truck stop waitress, the highway patrolman… among others. Through overlaps and failings of singularity the film calls into question traditional notions of character and storytelling in addition to the boundless American sensibilities of individuality and freedom.

High-level compositing techniques combine live action with hyperreal and dreamlike photographic settings of an America just out of arm’s reach. Fully animated environments and motion graphic elements amplify a pervading sense of reality in flux and further thematic explorations of such discontinuous ideas as: expanse and isolation, distance and intimacy, self and other.

An accompanying single-channel video-art installation is set in a claustrophobic boxlike structure built to appear inside as one of the ramshackle motel rooms featured in the film. Constructed expressly for the purpose of viewing the film in isolation, this room creates an immersive environment allowing the viewer to literally share in the world of the film.

Please visit this site to stay updated on the progress of Temporary Distortion’s feature film adaptation of Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road).