Blue Movie is an elegiac tribute to the late Juanita Slusher, a Dallas-based exotic dancer well known in the 50's and 60's as Candy Barr. Footage from the stag film Smart Alec, a film given to me by my grandfather, is used as the majority of the source imagery set to a rendition of "Autumn Leaves" performed by Dallas-based vocalist Lily Taylor. The song was noted by Candy Barr as her favorite to dance to. The silver-based emulsion of the film was replaced with cyanotype chemistry and laid under the sun to create the blue image.

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16mm film - 6.5 minutes