Heinrich Heine, who wrote in an 1833 work on the German Romantic period that “every epoch is a sphinx which plunges into the abyss as soon as its problem is solved.”
The look of your film is reminiscent of the banal landscapes enshrined by American photographers in the ’70s.
Stephen Shore, Robert Adams and Joe Deal’s photography are big influences and part of that school of “man-altered landscapes.” For me a landscape that’s completely free of man-made stuff is not that interesting. I like a little bit of a footprint.
Kelly Reichardt, Interviewed by Deborah Solomon for the NY Times Magazine, November 30th.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30wwln-Q4-t.html?ref=magazine
The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of paraheliotropic trees 