Sideways

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A post-modern collage of images, brick walls, wheels, a shopping mall, highways, and flashing lights are collaged together over music by the Yardbirds, a 1960s English rock band, from which the title takes its name.

A film which, by the use of a simple camera movement, explores and reviews some relationships to the ground. The viewpoint continuously orbits places, objects, people and events. The observations gradually speed up to reveal a double sided ground flipping like a tossed coin, then slow again to oscillate about the earths edge.