The Aisle's Quiet Poetry

a short film by Alvester Deloach

The Aisle's Quiet Poetry — ninety seconds on the part of the retail day nobody films. The facing. The zoning. The walking the same stretch of floor until your feet know it the way a choir knows a hymn.

Why I made it

Because retail is the most-watched, least-seen work in America. Everyone stands in the aisle; almost nobody notices the person who made it a straight line. This film is my love letter to that invisible mirror, to the shelf that reads like a sentence.

Film

Made between shifts, cut to the record-spin tempo of the station wagon radio on the way home from Trenton.

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