Welcome to Nowhere (Bullet Hole Road)

Mar 10 2012 N/A 0h 55m
Fantasy

In the illustrious tradition of on-the-road, rambler cinema, Welcome to Nowhere (Bullet Hole Road) is a fresh, experimental take. Heavily reliant on motion graphics animation, director William Cusick charts the surreal encounters of five overlapping strangers in the American desert. The spirit calls to mind David Lynch, and more recently Calvin Lee Reeder and Cory McAbee, but it never feels derivative, it always brings fresh light...Cinema often loses power in clarity, in a strict adherence to narrative logic. The unwieldy and fractured nature of Welcome To Nowhere offers more than a story, here, all that really matters is the weariness of the ramble. It's hazy and sweaty and sketched. "You know how some pills you take are clear, but on the inside are all these little balls of shit that are really the pill?" That's where nowhere is. This used to be the stuff of cult classics.

Plot

In a series of warped, image-driven episodes, five strangers in the American West navigate overlapping landscapes of paradoxical fantasy. Constantly shifting perspective, the fractured narrative revolves around a poet, a hitchhiker and three motel rooms. A surrealistic combination of sparse dialog, unsettling characters and abstracted motion graphics animation, the film is a dreamy revision to the classic road story.

Written by

Kenneth Collins, William Cusick

Directed by

William Cusick

Cast

Tina Balthazar, Nick Bixby, Peter Blomquist

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Temporary Distortion

Languages

English

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
67
Average Rating
8.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA