In 2019, 600 HIGHWAYMEN began documenting occurrences and rituals across rural New York. FIVE YEARS is a multichannel installation built from thousands of short films that capture a place and a time in the country—fractured and alive. Hands at work, kitchens and parking lots, parades and protests, flags and guns, ice storms, pleasure, rage—all seen side by side at mammoth scale. A child is born. The archive grows. Image after image, the world gets larger. Through a deluge of images and sound, the portrait becomes stranger, thornier, harder to resolve. An epic of intimacy. This is a home movie.
August 28–29, 2026: ,PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance, Chatham, NY | tickets + info
January 16–17, 2027: Under the Radar Festival / The Public Theater, NYC, NY | tickets + info
Future dates to be announced.
Projection Designer: Attilio Rigotti
Sound Designer/Composer: Ryan Gamblin
Dramaturg/Process Design: Andrew Kircher
Editing Consultant: Nathaniel Wallis
Production design support was made possible by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation.
FIVE YEARS was commissioned by PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance and developed with support from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Mitu’s Artists-At-Home Program.
