“sometimes i wonder so much about space and what the moon would say of us”

Bass Pro Shop is the second film collaboration between poet Chet Weise and filmmakers Doug Lehmann and Poni Silver. It illustrates Weise’s poem, originally published by Peach Magazine, by casting Weise as an astronaut, traveling to our moon and allowing him a different perspective on his surroundings back home.

The poem itself is about subversion, subterfuge, exploitation, free will, vulnerability, intolerance, Elvis, The Grateful Dead, Memphis, Nashville, and two Bass Pro Shops. The film reflects a sonic, exterior, and interior exploration of the poem’s cloud of ideas, themes, sounds, and personalities.