24 Hitchhikers

During the 1960’s and 70’s, a closeted scientist at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission befriended dozens of hitchhikers along the Pacific Coast Highway between Venice Beach and Santa Barbara. He invited many of those men into his home to model before his camera, and their long-concealed images provide a glimpse into those bygone encounters. The work is a stream-of consciousness meditation on longing, transformation, and shared intimacies between men at a particular point both in their lives and in Americam history when the open road promised a journey of personal re-invention and discovery. (Madrid International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)