
Like a tormented half-brother 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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Like a tormented half-brother 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.
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