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Wow! Really, Wow!

You recently had all of your early Super 8 films transferred to video. What did you learn after watching those movies?
It was motivated by the fact that my mentor died awhile back unexpectedly. It made me want to look at all the material I'd worked on during the period I knew him and that he had worked on. There was a group that sort of came up together, and worked together. I called everyone and pulled all the films together and made decent copies, because none of us had decent copies of them. We're still in the process of fixing all the sound, but just watching them was really fascinating. I was inspired in a way, because they were so full of ideas and you need to be reminded. When you're starting out you try anything and everything, and it's good to make sure that you stay in touch with that. It's a trick of the mind to work on a large scale movie and still make creative decisions as if you were making a Super 8 movie with your friends. I think you have to do that and you have to block out all the things that might keep you from doing that.

Who was your mentor?
His name was Mich?l McCallum, he was a documentary filmmaker. He was teaching at Louisiana State University, I