Life and Other Anxieties (1978)

In 1975 I was invited to make any film I wanted as long as it was shot in Minneapolis David Hancock a filmmaker friend in Vermont who coincidentally grew up in Minneapolis had just asked me to film him He had been recently diagnosed with terminal cancer in his early thirties and wanted me to document the craziness of his dying days as he was buffeted from chemotherapy to New Age cures recommended by friends I didnt have the stomach to follow much of Davids last days Meanwhile Steve Ascher and I teamed up to go to Minneapolis We wanted to ask strangers what in their lives they would like to have filmed For me it was almost like an act of expiation Ed Pincus via Harvard Film Archive