Everyone dreams of living a vacation everyday of their life. But would you be able to return home if your dream actually came true?
Overloaded is a a 35 min long docudrama on the travels of a 39-year old long-haul trucker, Martin Hurley, who is assigned to transport building materials from San Francisco to Virgin, Utah, to be released in festivals in the summer of 2007.
Along the way, his emotions and perception of the environment changes as he faces unprecedented difficulties, and experiences the unexpected, both from news back home and troubles on the road. Driving through locations such as the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas, Zion National Park, and Yosemite National Park, this film's variety of visual styles, and unique portrayal of landscapes will truly be a first of its kind.
This film attempts to use an engaging narrative, combined with a cinema verite style of storytelling, as well as an experimental style that ranges from the highly sensorial to the highly abstract, to address the issue of the modern perception of speed, and its relationship to an individual's sense of isolation, responsibility, and status. However, to keep this topic accessible to the general viewer, these issues are dealt with in the context of yet another pertinent question: what acquiring freedom actually means and entails in our modern world.
Check out the Website for Overloaded, by Stanford students Dennis Lo and Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour.
http://overloadedthefilm.com
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