Hobohemia Video Triptych
Posted by Bradley L. Garrett on Monday Jul 4, 2011 Under Anthropology, Breaking and Entering, Cultural Geography, Departures, Eastern Europe, Ethnography, Film, Freedom, Geography, Road Trips, Urban Camping, Urban ExplorationThis film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
– Clint Eastwood
Hobohemia was a series of three trips in 2009 and 2010 organised by The Winch into continental Europe. As an experiment in raw living and in an effort to experience something new, we began sleeping in the ruins we were exploring, eventually making it as far East as Poland on our final journey. I filmed each of the trips, work that was incredibly difficult given the conditions we were travelling under. The result is the Hobohemia Triptych, a series of 3 films that compose this ethnography in its rawest form. It is dirty, shaky, visceral footage that speaks to the excitement, exhaustion and eventual deliriousness that travelling in this way induces. I hope you find them inspirational.


