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Ghost Trip

Bill Morrison • 22m

Directed by Bill Morrison • Documentary • 2000 • 23 minutes

Ghost Trip is a rare example of live-action fictional filmmaking from Morrison. This supernatural road-movie follows an unidentified driver (played by singer-songwriter Slink Moss) as he moves through highways, railways, abandoned homesteads and empty beaches, casinos, cemeteries and scrublands seeking spiritual guidance on the way from African-American singers, preachers and musicians. Composer Michael Montes’ soundscape carries the film with its psycho-industrial churning that combined with film’s imagery reflects the filmmakers interest in different realms of reality.

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communication and media studies, experimental film, film and video studies, ghost trip, icarus films, ovid, poe, poetic, s_0103, s_0108, short, title_defgh, title_g

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