A large stone dragon inspires a filmmaker to quit his job and journey from the Arctic to Panama to renew his purpose and question the mythology of the North American dream.
An encounter with a large stone dragon in the heart of Central America, inspires filmmaker Dan Gainsford to abandon a routine desk job and embark on a five-year pilgrimage from the Arctic to Panama. Intuition guides Gainsfords path in this non-traditional documentary as he struggles with his place in the North American dream. In the end, visionaries and laymen help him renew his purpose and reveal the importance of forging new stories about the places we call home.
Searching for Dragons takes the viewer on a meditative journey that explores the pressures facing our contemporary society as we move beyond the industrial age. The film begins in a thawing Arctic landscape and progresses south throughout the continent until finally arriving at the Panama Canal. This journey is non-linear and is presented as a dreamscape representing the North American continent.
