Road Trip uses footage I shot across Canada in the mid 2000s.
Additional camera work done by Nancy Beaton.
I’m in the process of updating Road Trip to the latest version of Korsakow, a software application originally created in 2000. Korsakow allows users without programming expertise to create nonlinear, or database, narratives. Version 5, released in July 2009, is free and Open Source, and is available for PCs and Macs.
Below is a screen capture of me ‘navigating’ through the narrative. The main frame is top left, and its soundtrack mixes with whichever panel I scroll over. When I select from 1 of the other 3 screens, it becomes the main one and a set of 3 new previews appears.
Roadtrip is a non-linear narrative, but it begins in Langley (B-C), east to Wolfville (NS) and west again, to Montreal (QC). As the navigator, you must find your way along this trajectory or risk looping infinitely in one province…