Greetings from Amarillo

Greetings from Amarillo

Chip Lord 
2016, 29:57 min, color, sound, HD video

Description

Greetings from Amarillo uses seven songs by Hayden Pedigo to structure a portrait of the north Texas landscape. Each song presents a different location such as a hunter’s trophy room, open plains, and beside the railroad tracks as a coal train passes. The work begins and ends at Cadillac Ranch, Ant Farm’s public sculpture just outside Amarillo, but also includes footage of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty seen from the air. Pedigo’s solo guitar music is from his album of the same name. Part of a three city trilogy that also includes Miami Beach Elegy, 2017 and Fifteen Minutes in Phoenix, 2019.

Produced and directed by Chip Lord. Cinematography by Christopher Beaver. Sound mixed by Jim Mckee.