Back in the Saddle Again (1997)

A found footage film that innocently plays with many of the elements I explore in my own work A familys playful interaction with a 16mm sound movie camera singing along as a group with Gene Autreys title song in front of the camera combines western fantasy American kitsch gender posturing deterioration of the films surface the wonderment of the cinematic process and the use of controlled accidents to shape the form of the film My only intrusion on the footage was to print it first in negative which adds a mysterious ghostly edge to it and to print it again in positive which seems to answer many of the questions raised in the first version Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013