What is it?
"For six years in the 1970s, dead-broke and with his back against the wall, Orson Welles went into the desert and built a giant middle finger to a New Hollywood that didn't want him anymore. A breathless carnival of fragile male egos and the cameras that break them, The Other Side of the Wind chronicles the birthday and death-day of an elderly director who can't finish his big, sexy comeback movie because his money has dried up and his lead actor has fled the set. And that's just for starters."
What did I do?
With archivist gloves I untangled trash bins of tangled 35mm and 16mm film that Orson Welles had stashed in obscure vaults around the world. I was assistant to the director, Peter Bogdanovich, who was in his youth when he acted in the film alongside Orson and John Huston.
Once I re-spliced the aged negatives, we digitized, and worked on notes. Frank Marshall was a location scout on this film, and kept his promise to help Peter finish what Orson started.
