A Highway Called 301 (60 mins.)

Georg Koszulinski
Friday 6:00 PM at the Nickelodeon Theatre
U.S. Route 301, designated in 1932 as a spur of U.S. Route 1, runs from Sarasota, Florida northward through the Atlantic states and ends just beyond the Delaware Bridge. Presently, one-thousand and ninety-nine miles of highway connect small towns, bisect otherwise rural landscapes, and provide a vital corridor for commerce and travel. A multitude of abandoned structures pepper the landscape and provide evidence of a cultural apparatus that extends both spatially (alongside the highway) and temporally (into past-present-future). What can the fragmentary evidence of remaining structures, or archi-textures, tell us about the past-present-future cultures who occupy these spaces? This audio-visual study seeks to answer this question, less in the form of visual-anthropology (ethnographic documentary) and more in the uncharted territory of visual-archaeology (science-non-fiction).