FOUND HIGHWAY: A REMAKE SURROUNDING A REMAKE OF A FILM THAT LIVES WITHIN A FILM

Digital video, 2 minutes 32 seconds, 2026.

When I first came across the artist Actually Huizenga’s remake of the snuff film that lives within the universe of David Lynch’s Lost Highway, I was not only impressed by her idea, but even more so, that she’d been bold and unflinching enough to see it through to completion. In honour of this, I decided to act upon my own compulsion to recreate a scene from Lost Highway that is directly adjacent to Huizenga’s remake. Following this, I combined all three sources of footage, intersplicing Lynch’s original with Huizenga’s version and my own meddling. The result is something altogether new—something meta-dimensional that exists purely to get lost, or perhaps, by another token, found in. What does it mean to remake something? And furthermore, what does it mean to remake something surrounding something already remade? Where are we now? (One answer would be that we’ve arrived in a found footage copyright nightmare.) This filmic exercise exists for artistic reasons only, with no intention of financial profit or personal gain. Hopefully, no copyright lawyers have been harmed during—or due to—the making of this film. “Enjoy the doing,” as David Lynch always said. Art for art’s sake, et cetera.

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