In an effort to better understand the expressive and critical affordances of the found footage film, I culled moving-image archives to create fictional family narratives. Using allegory as a device to raise questions about authenticity and memory, my film interweaves the historical with the mythological. I use heavily degraded home video of photo slideshows, tourism footage, and intertitles to play with some of the odd fictions and fantasies around the Southwestern United States.