My Indiana Muse (2018)

Vacation slides are as much the butt of jokes as airline food VCR clocks and glamour shots Americana artist Robert Townsend would disagree With an interest in vernacular photographyin which amateur photographers shoot everyday imagesRobert finds some vacation slides and becomes creatively smitten with one lady who appears in numerous photos whom he thinks has a superstar quality As he immortalizes her world in paintings that are outsized celebrations of the midcentury era Townsend finds himself picking up clues and setting upon a quest to learn more about this happy mystery woman and her Kodacolor life Its a gorgeous and fascinating film celebrating an incredibly talented artist and his middleAmerican muse in cateye glasses