Miles from Nowhere is an odd assortment of a travelogue and a narrative piece, both told without much of the normal confines of a movie. This one can be considered by many as my worst movie, however, I am still quite intrigued by the whole project, because it is basically a saved abortion.
The original movie I had shot was a small little film about three friends on a road trip. One of them is an ex-jock type who plans on becoming a chef, his hippie girlfriend, and a dark sensitive writer who just graduated college and has no direction. In the movie, the writer has a crush on his best friends’ girlfriend, and yells at both of them due to his frustration with the situation. It is implied in the movie that the writer will get the girl.
When the semester ended, my writer friend started going out with my girlfriend.
This absolutely devastated me. I felt like I couldn’t continue with the movie. My best friend Dave and I were going to go on a road trip all the way south to Key West, Florida. I planned on making the trip into a little movie, using a tape recorder and a still camera. That’s when the idea hit me… Combine both movies into one.
The end result is kind of a stream-of-consciousness, emphatic and emotional-baggaged trip into the whinings of me at a certain moment of my life. The piece is fairly unedited, and the narration that accompanies the movie was me watching the final product and voicing what happened. One take, its’ all I could have beared.
The Orginal Script of the Movie
