In July 1986, around the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, Life Magazine put out an issue about "America the Wondrous," which named Nevada US Route 50 "the loneliest road in America" and quoted AAA as saying, "it has no points of interest" and "we don't recommend it." More than 35 years later, this story piqued our curiosity, and Outlier Moving Pictures decided to reinvestigate with a road picture, an offbeat documentary collage with a picaresque experimental structure, loosely inspired by François Girard's "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" and Jergen Leth's "60 Scenes from America," and comprising a mosaic of answers to the question, "Just how lonely is it now?"

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We've been out on location shooting twice now, and plan to go back twice more, after an unforeseen delay while we sheltered in place during the pandemic, which we've used to write a grant and edit some sample footage.  Next up, maps and models! Toy wagon train, here we come! We hope to be back on the road again in September to start the next phase of principal photography.