The Long Landscape: A Filmmaker Bicycles the American West - Couverture souple

Delpeut, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1954600828 ISBN 13 : 9781954600829

Editeur : DoppelHouse Press, 2026

Synopsis

A filmmaker's two-wheeled conquest of the American West uncovers the soul of American Manifest Destiny and connects to fellow passionate cyclists from the corners of 20th-century surrealism, modernist painting, high-wheeling, and science fiction.

To cross the United States by bicycle with his beloved, a Dutch filmmaker sets out with her from Disney's Epcot Center toward Las Vegas -- a 4500 mile journey -- on the cusp of summer. His goal is to reimagine the dimensions and breadth of the American landscape without the mediation of a car's windshield. What ensues in his search for that mythological American West, which is seamlessly represented in movies and literature, is discovered to be rarely felt in its actual punishing weather and expanse. On their way through the South, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, the couple encounter a blistering cast of characters no film director could even hope to dream up. As they probe the boredom of the long, drawn-out landscape, they discover a philosophy to unite the challenge, wonderment, discovery, and naivete that brought them along these roads. Woven into the narrative is the history of long-distance cycling in America, high-wheeler adventurers in the 1870s and 1880s, H.G. Wells's Wheels of Chance, the sublime paintings of Mark Rothko, and Alfred Jarry's send-up, Supermale, about the erotics of the machine age. The forty-year-olds who embarked in Florida fell more deeply in love during their adventure, which culminates in the ridiculous simulacrum of landscape in Las Vegas, a kind of nightmare; but instead of discouraging them, they write in a new introduction, this trip was the seed of a passion they have pursued around the world for decades since.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Delpeut (b.1956) is a Dutch author and filmmaker. He has written four novels, several essay books on art and film, and two lyrical books about long distance cycling. For his debut novel in 2007 he was nominated for the Gerard Walschap Prize and awarded the Halewijn Prize. He makes films in many genres: found footage, documentary and features. Many of them are critically acclaimed and prizewinning films, including Lyrical Nitrate; Felice, Felice...; andThe Forbidden Quest. Delpeut is represented by Film Secession, an FWA-award winning online film museum. He studied philosophy and film theory, graduating from the Dutch Film Academy in 1984. He served as editor for film magazines Skrien and Versus. From 1988 to 1995 he worked as curator and deputy-director for the Netherlands Filmmuseum (now Eye), famous at the time for its revolutionary color preservations of films from the silent era. In 2005 a retrospective of his film work was presented in Washington D.C., New York and Berkeley. He currently lives in Amsterdam.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: DoppelHouse Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1954600828
• ISBN 13: 9781954600829
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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