Last Thoughts is based on an audio tape that my grandfather, Robert Henry, made shortly before his death in 1992. Born in Oklahoma, he, like many of his generation, spent much of the Great Depression traveling around the country by freight train, looking for work. He kept his stories from those years to himself his entire life, and it was only in his last days that he finally told (and recorded) them.

I heard the tape for the first time several years ago, and soon after began work on this film project. Living in a van, I spent a year driving around the American West with a 16mm film camera, retracing my grandfather's travels and looking for echoes of his experience in the modern landscape.

Last Thoughts is currently screening at film festivals around the world. It has not yet been released on DVD, but some excerpts are available on this site.

Thanks for your interest in the film.

Kevin Henry

Length

72 minutes

Shooting Format

Super 16mm

Screening Format

35mm, video

Film

Kevin Henry

Words

Robert Henry

Interview

G. Glenn Henry

Sound Design

James LeBrecht

Sound Mix

Dan Olmsted

Film Lab

Monaco SF