Land Hacks: Masculine Media Anxiety Disorder - or 55 Film Locations Near Bakersfield (2018)

Filmmaker retraces Oakies and 55 Hollywood film locations in rural California, has three heart attacks, and uses them to create a snapshot of white male victimization in the Trump era. Experimental film that documents ground-zero for mutual contempt in the red- versus blue-state culture wars. Kern County in the Central Valley, promotes itself as either 'the most red-states county in 'blue-states' California,' or with the boast: 'They call us the Texas of California.' Even as it condemns Hollywood 'elites,' Kern actively solicits Hollywood studios to film in Kern by offering them generous tax breaks. 'Land Hacks' details how rural folks and urban elites complicate each other when they 'partner' to make films. Film digs through a century of Hollywood images and rural landscapes as 'mind hacks'; as ideological disruptions that echo heart blockages or that reinforce Kern's extraction economies and 'land hacks': mining, oil drilling, industrial farming, and prison outsourcing.