The Sprinter

A story of living in an age of mass media, data smog, and oversupply of information, yet finding sanctuary from the channels of high gloss with the solemn rituals that lose themselves in the shuffle and are reclaimed for an instant.

This fifteen-minute short film was cocreated with Jason Hardy and is what I consider to be my first fully realized, intentional creative act in both process and completion.

 
 
 

20 Years Later

A story of living in an age of mass media, data smog, and oversupply of information. The Sprinter, a short film about freedom, was filmed 20 years ago this month. My good friend and long time collaborator Jason Hardy and I made the project together. A couple young graphic designers who decided making a short film was a perfect way to combine our point of view when it came to design, music, story telling, and overall visual aesthetic.

It’s gritty. It’s raw. Very much DIY. A simple idea of a man who drives his car from inside the city to out, slowly meandering thru familiar streets, only to find himself in a familiar place on the outskirts, completely alone on a county gravel road.

Here, he does what his ritual has taught him he needs.

Told in three parts:

  • Act I: Melody, Interruption

  • Act II: Grind, Overload

  • Act III: The Release

20 years ago what we were concerned with, the seemingly constant overload, that concern has only heightened.

Which means it’s a perfect time to revisit the film.

Get lost in the melody, grind it out, and then, release.

 

Collaborators

  • The Sprinter was played by Ringo

  • Written, shot, directed, and edited by Justin Kemerling and Jason Hardy

  • Cameras loaned to us by Mike Semrad and Jennifer Lukas

  • Drums played by Joe Heider

  • Audio mastered by Brendan McGinn

  • Yelling and photos by Ian Whitmore

  • Car provided by Dan Henderson

2003: Collaboration, Self-Initiated Project, Print, Video

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