2016: TRUCKS GONE WILD shot for TRACKS - ARTE TV a European cultural channel
ON THE WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER 1, shortly before the US presidential election, I attended a Trucks Gone Wild event at the Redneck Mud Park in Florida to shoot a short video for the European Culture Channel, ARTE TV. While I was documenting the culture of Confederate-flag-toting monster trucks competing in track, mud bogs, and pulls, and recording ubiquitous acts of twerking and crushing beer cans on one's forehead, it was impossible not to notice that I had journeyed into the heart of the Trump electorate in the Southeast--complete with anti-Hillary signs and slogans and an abundance of flags vowing to Make America Great Again.
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