

A road trip through America's wounds where NPR fades and static tells the truth.
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America in search of the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildife.
Direction
Stafiej turns a sedan into a confessional.
Sound
Radio static as America's unreliable narrator.
Cinematography
Landscapes that judge you back.
Director
Mitchell Stafiej
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stafiej's method rejects traditional documentary structure—no interviews, no narration, just presence and frequency-hopping happenstance.
The film joins a wave of 'slow cinema' documentaries examining American decline through infrastructure and landscape, from 'Nomadland' to 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'
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