Goin’ Down The Road is an ongoing project that seeks to navigate the city of Toronto psychogeographically using popular films to propel the narrative forward. Relying on films’ inherent unfaithfulness to geography, a few dialogue cues, and a great deal of coincidence, scenes from disparate films intersect and redirect each other to follow geographic patterns rather than their individual stories. Compositing closely cropped professional footage over wide-angle, contemporary video allows for the emergence of a disjointed document that captures the growth of a city over several decades; distilling a small amount of truth from a growing library of fiction.

Brian R. Donnelly (b. 1979) is a Canadian artist motivated by mischief. He tests boundaries to see what new and unexpected outcomes arise from misusing media. His recent work includes found footage, recontextualized to shift focus from foreground narrative to background geography. Positioned somewhere between piracy and cartography, this work distills truth from fiction by misinterpreting the language of film. Transcending time and logic, urban landscapes are redrawn, exposing archives of disguised municipal identity.