The Hunt For Good Americans

The Hunt For Good Americans: The Personal Cinema of Victoria Campbell & Abby Pope

In the fall of 2009—before algorithms mapped our desires and smartphones flattened the dimensions of character—two young women drove across America looking for the real thing. Armed with $2,000, Armed with $2,000, paper maps, thrift-store costumes, and a station wagon on its last legs, they transformed strangers into actors and the open road into a stage. Part documentary, part theater, part fairy tale, The Hunt for Good Americans channels the rebellious energy of Daisies into a surreal cross-country search for identity, belonging, and the elusive idea of a "good American” and how two women searched for themselves along the way.

Writing their script on the fly in battered notebooks, they cast strangers they met along the way as "Good Americans," dressing them in thrift-store costumes and pulling them into improvised scenes that blurred the line between reality and…