
A writing portfolio
Untitled Trucker
By: Keegan
A drifting artist rediscovers America's landscapes while fulfilling a cross-country trucking contract in the wake of a futuristic national disaster.
Film Description
In a near future, the advent of reliable and readily-available personal aircraft vehicles has moved the majority of America’s infrastructure off the streets and into the skies. While the nation’s core highways remain operational—reserved exclusively for freight shipping via autonomous trucks—all other passenger roadways have disappeared in favor of their more efficient airway equivalents.
Liam Picker, a burgeoning NY artist, faces a major crossroad when his dreams for a gallery exhibition showcasing his “final frontier” landscapes seem just out of reach. When a national disaster suddenly renders the nation’s few remaining highways inoperable, Liam returns both to his midwestern roots and behind the wheel of his late father’s AI-assisted truck to fulfill a lucrative government trucking contract. Liam’s trek across the once mundane roads of a forgotten era proves a refreshing source of artistic inspiration and an invaluable pathway for self-discovery.
Inspiration
Untitled Trucker is primarily inspired by my wife, which makes her uncomfortable. But the main concept for the film was inspired by many excruciatingly boring drives on I-70 across Kansas and into a good chunk of pre-Denver Colorado. It centers around those feelings and the entitlement behind them, because one day I’m sure we’ll miss, forget, and rediscover the beauty of open fields of true nothingness.
