The Great Northwest (2012)

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the recreation of a 3200 mile roadtrip made in 1958 by four Seattle women who thoroughly documented their journey in an elaborate scrapbook Fifty years later Portland artist Matt McCormick found that scrapbook in a thrift store and in 2010 set out on the road following their route as precisely as possible and searching out every stop in which the ladies had documented Patiently shot with an observational cinemavérité approach The Great Northwest is a lyrical time capsule that explores how the landscape architecture and culture of the Pacific Northwest has changed over the past fifty years