Harvest/Hex

Harvest/Hex is a contemporary tale of survival told as an observation of place. The choreography of cars is central to the film’s rhythmic composition. It is a visual incantation; a naturalistic portrait of a hybrid American experience unfolding as a continuous space. The story of twentieth-century American migration, as told in John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, correlates with the contemporary reality of an otherwise unremarkable American town transformed into a beacon of short-term prosperity through the hi-tech extraction of oil. The temporary encampments outside the petroleum plant symbolize an unapologetic wish for a new beginning. Just as the little farmhouse that stands against the apocalyptic Kansas winds and the thunder of the cars punctuate a game of survival. This is the collected tableau in which Harvest/Hex resides. These scenarios function together as an open system, like expanded photographs and oblique records of a place and time.