HWY
An American Pastoral
By Jim Morrison (1969)

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"KILLER ON THE ROAD"

Already getting a taste of filmmaking while attending UCLA with Ray Manzarek, Paul Ferrara, and Frank Lisciandro, Morrison and The Doors found themselves featured in a 1969 short documentary. Created by Lisciandro, Ferrara, and Ferrara's high school chum Babe Hill, Feast of Friends is an underrated classic of rock cinema, with glimpses of a performance by The Doors that caused a near-riot.  Well-shot and edited, and loaded with classic Doors tunes throughout, it still has yet to see the light of a legitimate video release, although bits and pieces of it are scattered throughout various Doors releases.   Of course, its been available in bootleg form for years.

Inspired by this cinematic excursion, Morrison founded his own production company (in order to keep these efforts as a separate entity from The Doors) and hired Lisciandro, Hill, and Ferrara to help him create a new, fictional work. Writing and financing the project on his own, production of HWY began in the spring of 1969.

HWY is a stark 50-minute-long film, almost completely without dialogue. The references to '60s cinema are abundant.  The influences of Jodorowsky, Antonioni, Warhol, Anger, and Godard seem to be present. Created by former film students, the references were most likely intentional (especially in the case of Morrison) and, in this way, HWY will likely have a much deeper meaning to experimental film students than to the average Doors fan.

In a 1969 interview with Howard Smith, Morrison summarized the film: "Essentially, there's no plot, no story in the traditional sense; a person, played by me, comes down out of the mountains and hitchhikes his way through the desert into a modern city, which happens to be L.A., and that's where it ends."

"The only reason I [acted in HWY ] is because I couldn't think of anyone else to do it, you know, and it was just as easy for me to do it. I might do some films. I don't know. I'm not that crazy about being an actor, I'd rather be a director or a writer, something like that, but you know, if I had the chance, I'd probably do a few films. Why not?"

- Don Alex Hixx©
Subterranean Cinema