Exploring space and time within a rigorous structure, this experimental film employs time-lapse photography to follow the path of the above-ground Trans-Alaska Pipeline System as it carries crude oil some 800 miles across the state. Though mile markers provide a palpable sense of steady progress, our eye is continually challenged during this slow journey as we try to comprehend the changing face of these vast, almost abstract landscapes. Eschewing any conventional narrative film technique, each shot stoically follows the previous one, just as each section of the pipeline inevitably links to the next. The camera is locked down, but the scale of time inside the static frame varies widely, creating moments of transcendental beauty. Here, the natural and industrial clash and converge, and new environments both geologic and manmade emerge.  TW