www.alextyson.net

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I’m a filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles, California, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

My films have screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight, Lincoln Center’s Art of The Real, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Visions du Réel and others. I’ve worked as a cinematographer internationally, including the US, Brazil, China, the South Pacific, Europe and Central Africa, and have contributed to Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentaries. I work as an editor, graphics artist and sound designer on films and installations. 

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THE SET

   
The Amboy Crater is a lonely goth outlier in the Mojave Desert, 45 minutes from Joshua Tree National Park. Its last explosion was 5000 years ago, evidenced by the surrounding basalt lava fields and rugged, hyperlocal plants.


The actors will hike 3.5 mile round trip, peaking with an ultraviolet sunset viewed from its rim at 250 feet. The rim trail is a 360º set piece allowing for chance, beauty, and moments of existential awakening.

The crater overlooks a Route 66 ghost town and railroad tracks, where shipping containers run from horizon to horizon every 30 minutes. Wind gusts are common, as are heat shimmer and mirages. This is the ideal location for surveillance contractors to test their software on unsuspecting civilians at from a distance.