the latent image presents~ Lay Down Tracks
"The river is like my parish, and my congregation all the people who work out on the river."
-- Riverboat Skipper/Nun
"This Argentine said back to me, 'you know, I think your problem is that you haven't realized, as a country, that your country has now been fully settled, You've won the west. You don't have to move anymore.'"
-- Railway Privatization Consultant
"The saying is, 'can't wait to be home, glad to be on the road again.'"
-- Trucker
Brigid McCaffrey's Lay Down Tracks (2006) follows around five people who make their lives on the move. Made with unsynced 16mm and a tape recorder, the film layers the voices of its itinerant cast over images of the intimate and in-between spaces that they move through as they work: river ports, truck stops, carnivals, empty hotel lobbies, and shortwave radio bands. Their images and voices jostle around each other, as each individual reflects on their own history, and on the work and enticement of constant movement.
Also screening The Log Driver's Waltz (1979) by John Weldon.
-- Riverboat Skipper/Nun
"This Argentine said back to me, 'you know, I think your problem is that you haven't realized, as a country, that your country has now been fully settled, You've won the west. You don't have to move anymore.'"
-- Railway Privatization Consultant
"The saying is, 'can't wait to be home, glad to be on the road again.'"
-- Trucker
