Excerpts from a Work in Progress Undesirables (1999)

A roughcut of selected scenes edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film Undesirables The idea started with a casual comment made by Stan Brakhage must have been way back in the early 1970s It stuck in my mind Now that I think about it Brakhage may have meant this as a joke He said Someday Hollywood will probably make a film about us us meaning the experimental filmmakers and I wonder which actors will play us Think about that first of all the idea that Hollywood would make a film about experimental filmmakers is totally ridiculous The fact that one would think about which actor was going to play me at some time in the future I think thats very funny Eventually it germinated in my mind and I thought it was an interesting idea A film about experimental filmmakers especially in the very formative period approximately 1968 to 1972