Going Home Sketchbook (1975)

Reflecting on this deconstructed family portrait Beams writes This film taught me a lot about Time as I rotoscoped my family at our summer cottage in Indiana I was at MacDowell during a cold and dreary fall The hours I spent tracing my loved ones as they sat in the sunlight gave me a powerful tool for grabbing onto happiness I came out of the summerlight Indiana trance into a chilly rainy New Hampshire autumn ready to head back to dinner in the dark and I felt as though I had been with my family all day in the best place we all enjoyed together It seemed as though by spending hours drawing a few short moments in their lives I could extend their time and mine on this earth I felt I had control in providing more time to them by drawing more frames than each frame of original film