Short Films - Travels: Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven

Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven - Martin Jørgensen (Short Films - Travels)

The united states really only exists in the minds of americans, so for the visiting foreigner it is just a question of renting a car and accepting it all as a mirage without directions or vanishing points. Thus is the rationale of the two Danish artists claus carstensen and Peter Bonde in ‘Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven’, a pitch-black and elliptic road movie/docu-noir down the american highways. And there seems to be tacit agreement to behave accordingly among the small group of middle-aged men in freshly ironed shirts and richard Nixon masks, who together set off towards unknown lands. An abandoned race track, a gun club, a swimming pool, a motorway diner and an endless motorway are the genre-symbolic settings for their mysterious journey which is documented thoroughly with polaroid pictures en-route. There are traces of a classical Hollywood plot, but even in daylight, Martin K. Jørgensen’s enigmatic and evocative film looks as if it has been shot in the middle of the night, and makes do with impressionistic fragments to show instead of telling. (2009, DK, 19 min)

Short Films - Travels:
Peter & the Farm
Yellow Waste / Blue Heaven
Framing the Other