1984, USA
63′
DOP, dir: Ken Camp

The Los Angeles highway killer (Leonard Lumpkin) sets off on a journey to Las Vegas—and back. This video by Ken Camp (As the World Burns) is both hypnotic and disturbing. It takes the viewer through the deserts of California, Nevada, and “the frightening zone where lay the genetic codes and memories that make us all killers.”
Ken Camp’s Highway Hypnosis, which has not been seen since its premiere in 1984 at the EZTV Video Gallery in West Hollywood, is a disturbing meditation on the eroticism of violence and an important work of both narrative video art and queer horror.