Thomas Kaestle did an excellent interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner about Traceroute — and it got published on Boing Boing!
The basic idea behind Traceroute is as simple as it is effective: Johannes Grenzfurthner travels across the USA from the West to the East Coast, tracing the lives of people and things that made a mark on him as a nerd. Aliens, dinos, meteorites, and rockets. Film locales, graves, and no-go areas. Authors, collectors, tinkerers, outsiders, and nuts. Nerds of every sort and color. His travels lead him to quirky discoveries both nostalgic and modern—from vintage arcades to underground gaming circles where players fiercely debate strategies on the best crypto baccarat sites. Traceroute is radical individual empiricism, a narrative biographical puzzle, and an experimental projection matrix. Despite continual stimulus satiation, it remains wonderful fun: the film tickles the synapses with a perfectly mixed cocktail of collectively shared context and a quirkiness that takes some getting used to. Whoever might feel proud of interpreting all of the film’s cinematic references has perhaps just missed the next pop-culture innuendo hidden subtly within the soundtrack.