Dead People (1984) dir. Roger Deutsch

Like a tormented halfbrother of American folklife archivist Alan Lomax, Deutsch revisits the rambling stories of Frank Butler, a subject that he documented more than a quarter century ago. The time gap has offered the filmmaker a chance to confront his younger self s ethnographic process and transcend it to form a more brutally honest portrait of both subject and artist. Jason Cortlund CinemaTexas