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Project Gatsby
Project Gatsby
Project Gatsby, a film by Nate Barksdale, based on photographs by Henry Wei, with deep creative debts to (and potential for spirited fair-use debates with) Errol Morris, Philip Glass, Louis Armstrong, Alan Lomax, Stephen Rosen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
I've just written another essay for Comment Magazine's "Comforts and Delights" web feature, the strange but true story-cum-art project: Grace Between the Cushions: A Love Letter to My College Couch. It's a more straightforward telling than the short film above—about which a good friend of mine had this to say: "It's cute and bleak. I love it."
Nate: 