Fool’s Gold: California Road Trip in an Election Year2014

References themes of greed and envy told through popular legends and stories of the livelihood and moral fiber thru interviews with the remaining elderly population of the once wealthy, rural American mining town of Trona California; after a corporate layoff and its ensuing exodus. Historic facts spanning the Gold Rush and the 1980’s of Reagan’s presidential years, comments about “consciousness,” Zombies as “insatiable consumers” found in Michael Jackson’s THRILLER dance, the desert landscape of the PINNACLES National Monument and DEATH VALLEY, and visuals of CAIN & ABEL, display an American mindset that effects war and its economic circles, the housing crisis, global financial change, and love for consumer products and celebrity.