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film · kelly reichardt's 2006 film old joy, chronicles two old friends' feelings of alienation and detachment that surface over a weekend camping trip in mountainous oregon.

paintings · mark rothko, who spent his adolescence in oregon, portrays these same feelings of alienation in his later color field paintings.

music · yoni wolf as why? uses dialogue from our film as a sample in the outro of this song, the fall of mr. fifths.

words i · by jonathan raymond from our film in a moment of self-reflection and realization between our two friends.

photos · these photographs were taken by justine kurkland and accompany the short story that our film is adapted from.

words II · as the co-star in our film, bonnie "prince" billy's real-life persona shines through. these lyrics to his 1999 song i see a darkness are apt.