THE ROAD TO MARGARITAVILLE (2010) - 51 minutes.

EXCERPT: ‘Loving The Gift Horse in the Mouth’

Lissa, an exotic dancer, and Nick, living in a motel room and completing state-mandated community service, serendipitously meet at a back-ally dumpster. The failures of their developing friendship are the focus of the film.

Written and shot over the course of a year, The Road to Margaritaville is a meditation (by definition) of a story that I was told nearly a decade ago about a friend from high school who misread the television footage of the September 11 attacks as scenes from a movie: the film continues and reflects on that original thought. I’m reading ‘reflection’, as a Lacanian device, entirely divorced from contemplation or understanding; as a way of witnessing the distortions of reality and misrecognizing them as complete; as a description of everything beyond our scope of vision; as a frame.

CREDITS

Directed by Jason Underhill

Script by Jason Underhill & Ben Smith

Story by Jason Underhill, Ben Smith & Roxie Fuller

Cast: Roxie Fuller, Ben Smith, Ignacio Genzon, Joshua J. Peters, Alex McDougall.