Interview with filmmaker Rick Prelinger on NO MORE ROAD TRIPS? - FRED Film Radio

Rick Prelinger, Director, Producer and editor, No More Road Trips?

Festival Section: Signals: Regained.

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Tell us a little bit about No More Road Trips? - "It's not a movie movie, and every time it plays it's a completely different experience. The reason why is because it is a film that is basically silent and the audience makes its soundtrack [...]"

It makes for quite an interactive experience - "The question is 'is travel over?', 'is the road trip dead?' [...] And it may be. Young people aren't driving as they used to, gas is expensive. [...] By looking at these journeys of the people of the past made up of people's home movies gives us a chance to ponder on the future of travels"

What was your drive in wanting to become an archivist - "It took me four or five years to realise that this was important public history work because these films are such a great way of getting people to think about history without getting theoretical and abstruse [...]"

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Archivist, writer and filmmaker Rick Prelinger talks about his latest work NO MORE ROAD TRIPS?, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, and about the renowned Prelinger Archives.

Epic montage film based entirely on American amateur home movies, from many different regions and periods. And this trip down memory lane offers an active role to the audience: all viewers are explicitly invited to talk during the film, as there is no other soundtrack.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.