Filmmakers and Producers

Deron Twohatchet

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Detour: Or How I Spent My Weekend
Deron Twohatchet
1995, 28 min., Color, US
Two mismatched drifters, Jim and James, are on a voyage discovering the contours of homo/hetero, red/white, personal/political, textual/metatextual in an experimental narrative feast. In a critique of the exoticized American Trickster figure, this work mixes genres: dramatization, dialogue, graphics...

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