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Prayer for the Blacktop Survivors is a short film that began life somewhat modestly as a camera test. The first scenes were shot back in the early nineties at a Lincolnwood, Illinois motel with a Bolex H16 and several daylight spools of Plus-X. Designed with a thematic framework but no firm narrative in mind, the project's purpose was primarily functional; to test for registration and light leaks. The footage was examined, screened at Chicago Filmmakers as a work-in-progress, and eventually shelved. It would not stay forgotten, however. Eventually resurrected in 1999 as visual accompaniment to an unrelated prose poetry experiment, the footage was re-worked to fit the new narrative and additional scenes were shot. In late 2000, the film was finally completed... marking an end to a strangely appropriate, decade-long creative cycle.
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