Mile… Mile & a Half (2013)

Mile… Mile u0026 a Half: Directed by Jason M. Fitzpatrick, Ric Serena. With Laura Obiols. A group of artists hike the John Muir Trail and bring back their experiences. 219 miles in 25 days. Come laugh, limp, sing and walk with us.

“This film is advertised as a documentary, but I actually experienced it as a low- budget horror film along the lines of The Blair Witch Project. In fact, I wasnu0026#39;t sure whether it was more terrifying to imagine being forced to go on a 225-mile hike in the company of this insufferable coven of Starbucks yuppies or being on an innocent walk in the woods, stumbling across the filmmakers, and having to listen to them play finger-cymbals and talk about kale. The fact that none of them can stay off their freaking cell phones for more than an hour at a time is almost enough reason to leave them on the trail as bear chum (yes, these are the guys you come across on the banks of the most gorgeous lake youu0026#39;ve ever seen who celebrate the occasion by calling someone in another state to talk about espresso capsules). If that doesnu0026#39;t do it for you, the documentary also features the Most Irritating White Man In North America (youu0026#39;ll recognize him by his hipster hat, his hipster beard, and his hipster humor– heu0026#39;s so ironic that even his irony is ironic). Though the filmmakers quote John Muir incessantly, you canu0026#39;t help feeling Muir would have chosen to become a bricklayer if heu0026#39;d known the trail that bears his name would one day be traversed by people like these.”