Recreation of 1958 trip through America to screen Nov. 7 on campus

Filmmaker Matt McCormick will stop by Western Washington University to offer a screening of his documentary film "The Great Northwest" at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in Viking Union Room 552.

The screening is free and open to the public, and a question-and-answer session with McCormick will follow the screening.

"The Great Northwest" is a 70-minute experimental documentary and video installation that explores how the visual landscape of the Pacific Northwest has changed during the past 50 years. The project is based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in 1958 by four Seattle women who thoroughly documented their journey in an elaborate scrapbook of photos, postcards, brochures and receipts. Fifty years later, McCormick found that scrapbook in a thrift store and set out on the road, following their route precisely and searching out every stop the ladies had documented.

Later on Monday, at 7 p.m. at the Pickford Film Center downtown, McCormich will offer a screening of his feature film "Some Days are Better Than Others."

McCormick, who lives in Portland, Ore., has had three films screen at the Sundance Film Festival and has had work screened or exhibited at MoMA, The Serpentine Gallery, The Oslo Museum of Modern Art, the Reykjavik Art Museum and The Seattle Art Museum.