The world has gone quiet. With no home and no memory, a nameless traveler searches for fellow survivors along a remote highway.

Narrative Short | 7 minutes

Director - Nicholas Thurkettle

People often ask “Where do your ideas come from?” And the truth is I still don’t know, but I’ve improved at tricking them out of wherever they hide. In college I carried a second major in music, and I never tired of feeling out unusual chords and chord progressions on the piano, asking “how do these notes together make me feel?” I’m still doing a version of that – looking for the unexpected resonance between elements, the path to a feeling that surprises you.

My life-long fascination with the line between humanity and artificiality, the landscapes of inland California that can look so astounding and so alien, the mythology of energy currents in nature, and yes, music as the key to it all…these elements combined struck a feeling in me I wanted to share; and as I described it to people, I saw in their excitement that this story had the potential to create that same feeling on the screen.