‘On The Road’ by Jack Kerouac

If Jack Ker­ouac wrote his leg­endary novel On the Road on a long paper scroll, why not do it on a long 35mm film roll as well? By re-typing the com­plete book –with the use of 35mm black leader instead of paper on a type­writer– this project attempts, among other things, to con­vert Kerouac’s roman­tic rhyth­mic writ­ing method onto a cold and mechan­i­cal tran­scrip­tion in order to give the work new pos­si­bil­i­ties and read­ings that, when pro­jected at 24 frames a sec­ond, although they do empha­size Kerouac’s inten­tions of imme­di­acy, they trans­form the text into illeg­i­ble blotches of let­ters that demys­tify and ques­tion lan­guage at its most ele­men­tal levels.

Film Maker
Lorenzo, Jorge
Year
2013
Country
Mexico/Colombia
Length
14
Language
English
Category
Abstraction, art & artists
Genre
Animation, experimental, short

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