White Line Fever
Highway hypnosis, white line fever - that strange state of mind you might have found yourself in when on a long drive…suddenly you snap out of a daydream and think, ‘How did I just drive the last few kilometres of road?’.
You might not have, but your brain did.
Starring Harry Musgrove & Directed by Jack Ralph.
Cinematographer / Anton Trivic
Composer / Lewis Coleman
Editor / Jack Ralph
Set Assist / Kelsey Pettifer
Set Assist / Adrian Eppel
Vehicle Owner / Honey Slingsby
The Car / Sunny
I wanted to bring this feeling to life in an exercise that I pitched to DOP Anton Trivic, we then expanded the idea & initially decided to turn it into a short film. We ended up leaving what we shot where it sits in this final piece, rather an exploration than a short.
This is more a basis for what I’d really want to do given the proper circumstances, really dig into the driving scenes (which were never filmed as part of this exploration) where the character falls into hypnosis.
I was lucky enough to get my brother, a brilliant actor in the theatre space as well, to play the role of the driver and explore this theme with Anton and I. We both really connected with this particular starting scene of the script, where the character leaves a roadhouse.
It’s located in Batesford, sort of just out of our home town. There’s something very fitting about the glowing lights against wet roads that made the Batesford Roadhouse float like a palace on the night highway.