Made during Myers' tenure as a film professor at Kent State University, AKRAN is a "collage of dreamy images of restless youth, landscapes of alienation, the Vietnam War, consumerist civilization, and overt racism." It represents the hopes, fears and frustrations of a young couple struggling to make it in a corrupt world. A statement about the 1960s, the film unfolds as a stream of consciousness that draws inspiration from some of Myers' Dadaist and surrealist heroes.