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Shot on Super 8 for $3,000, Richard Linklater’s first feature follows the wanderings of a young man (played by Linklater himself) as he journeys the country by bus and train, encountering friends and strangers along the way in a series of quotidian encounters that signal the filmmaker’s interests in temporality and everyday human interaction. Linklater—who handled every aspect of the filmmaking process—has described the film as “primarily a visual experience,” an “oblique narrative” about alienation, communication, the banality of life, and the mindset of travel. Legendary outsider musician Daniel Johnston appears in a cameo.