A couple in a dysfunctional relationship navigate a road trip through the California desert. The destination is unclear. So is everything else. She judges the journey through her phone — the light, the road, the car, the man beside her — curating a life that looks better through a lens than it feels in reality. He just wants some normality.
When they pick up a hitchhiker along the way, the already fragile dynamic between them begins to unravel. She is charmed. He is suspicious. The desert keeps its own counsel. As the journey continues, obsession, addiction and altered reality blur the line between truth and performance. Nothing is quite what it appears — not the car, not the stranger, not the relationship, not even the story being told. Road North raises uncomfortable questions about our motives, our relationships and our personal integrity. About the lives we perform for an audience we will never meet. And about what remains when the performance finally ends. Winner of best Thriller at the Neu Wave AI Film Festival.
"Some journeys aren’t about the destination. They’re about who’s watching".
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WRITTEN BY:
JON ROONEY & KIPPAN ROTHBURY
DIRECTED BY:
JON ROONEY
AI ENGINEERED, PRODUCED, EDITED, SOUND DESIGNED & COLOUR GRADED BY:
JON ROONEY
SOUNDTRACK FROM THE ALBUM:
PAROXYSM BY STEELE
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