El Errante

A tale of mobility, ethnicity and colonial heritage, ‘El Errante’ is a reflection on several propositions concerning Los Angeles from the perspective of the eponymous El Errante who has taken to urban walking following the impound of his car. This new mode of ambulation allows him to see Los Angeles as a complex system contingent on its inhabitants’ metanarratives of mobility. Within these, use of public transport is mostly circumscribed to those Angelinos unable to drive or to be driven. For the carless – the poor, the illegal, the elderly and the young – the sidewalk and the bus stop are apparatuses for encounters in the city while the time slowed by walking and waiting for public transport renders the city in unique ways.