A compilation of Super 8 footage from my childhood and a small tribute to Norton Buffalo, who died recently. “Thank you lord for giving me another day” says Norton. My sister Kathy is unavoidably throughout this video, just as she is in all the footage I have. She seems the one constant throughout our entire family experience when I was young and the film confirms this as she weaves in and out of the scenes of the film, just as she wove in and out of our lives and became a driving force in our family dynamic. Now that she has been gone, dead from brain cancer, for more than 18 years, it seems less bitter sweet to look back and put together a compilation of all the footage collecting dust and cobwebs in our parents attic. Most of my memories of Kathy are truly as she appears in the film: as a child bursting with exuberance and angst rather than the often angry and determined adult she became. We were always friends and always at odds. She challenged me just as she challenged my brothers as the only girl among us four siblings. These were good times, but they seem another life as I watch having now replaced old memories with many new. Nostalgia is simply part of the art now rather than remembrance.

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