Screening: American Dream vs. Go Greyhound
Max Herrlander
YAUTEPEC DF
27 Mar 2009
Swedish filmmaker Max Herrlander's whirlwind documentary of budget travel across the United States offers a uniquely stark yet reverential distillation of a country in beautiful decline.
His subjects seldom seem to play self-consciously for Herrlander's fly-on-the-wall camera, though at their most cringe-worthy or straight-up bizarre moments, one certainly might wish they were.
And while Herrlander's film begins with the restless, drug-addled social climb of New York City and concludes with a quasi-baptismal splash in the Pacific Ocean, it's an apparent nod to Matt Groening that speaks volumes. Herrlander's bus arrives at an indistinct station somewhere in the middle of nowhere as his camera locks in on a sign that simply reads, "Welcome to Springfield."
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
Still from American Dream vs. Go Greyhound, by Max Herrlander.
