Former San Francisco resident Willie Varela returns to the Cinematheque with his most ambitious work in nearly 20 years of filmmaking. The 104 minute Super-8 sound feature Making Is Choosing: A Fragmented Life: A Broken Line: A Series of Observations (1989) is “an epic document revealing the concerns, attitudes and influences of the decade of the ‘80s as manifested in the private life of a film diarist. The film spans six years in Varela’s life as it intimately depicts his personal triumphs and failures, his relationship with other artists (notably George Kuchar and Joe Gibbons), the birth of his daughter, communication breakdowns in the household, and the overwhelming ennui of his daily life in El Paso, Texas. Making Is Choosing… is a nakedly honest and unflattering portrait of one artist’s spiritual malaise in the ‘80s.” (Albert Kilchesty)