Above is a clip from the 62 minute Allen Killian Moore film titled Desolation Slow. I was asked to perform an improvised soundtrack where I watched the film at Humans Win! studios in Minneapolis, MN and played along while watching it. Sometimes there were multiple takes and then the sounds were chosen and collaged based on what worked best for the film. This clip is one of my favorite moments of the film.

Desolation Slow was released on 1980 records in 2018 and only about 100 copies exist. The film has been featured at Zeitgeist arts, Elastic Arts, Moon Palace, Grey Duck Microcinema, Grand Marais Art Colony, etc. It was also written about in Cinema Eye.

From Allen Killian Moores page:

Desolation Slow is both a visual tone poem and social inquiry, bringing moving image art, lo-fi aesthetics, and documentary forms together in a mesmeric cinematic collision. Filmed on location in rural Utah and Salt Lake City, the film reflects on homelessness, geography, and abandonment, while pondering connections between human and structural decay. Desolation Slow is also steeped in stories recounting decades of homelessness through the voice and figure of Joe Ortega, a formerly homeless resident who’s now successfully off the streets. The film's sonic pallet is complemented with a musical score composed by Chicago avant-guitarist, Billy Tucker, creating a dynamic counterpart to its visual preoccupations. Documenting life on the edge of society, Desolation Slow, poetically questions the status quo while affirming that homelessness is not inevitable.