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Old Times in Tennessee // Super 16mm // 43 min. // 2025
In the late summer of 1830, just months after signing the Indian Removal Act, President Andrew Jackson met with Chickasaw leaders in Franklin, Tennessee to negotiate their removal from homelands their ancestors had occupied for thousands of years. Old Times in Tennessee returns to this overlooked encounter not through reenactment or exposition, but through a layering of landscapes, architectural imagery, and archival text.
Shot on Super16mm, the film moves slowly along the Natchez Trace and its surrounding terrain—burial mounds, plantation homes, golf courses, cities, and subdivisions—intercut with fragments of 19th-century correspondence and press clippings. The result is a quiet excavation of place and memory, an invitation to consider how histories of removal persist beneath the surfaces of modern life.