Justin Christopher Ayd is the film specialist and projectionist for the Walker Art Center. Previously, he spent thirteen years as assistant head projectionist at Willow Creek, a local mainstream movie house in — where he still assists with 70mm exclusives today. Simultaneously, he is a filmmaker interested in telling stories about the intimate and revealing complexities of human existence, both in narrative and documentary form. He is currently working with his wife and producing partner Jennifer Lillemo Ayd on a feature documentary about the residents of a small town in Northern Minnesota.
The Last Movie: Dennis Hopper’s Curiously Frustrating Experiment
“Was Hopper a madman or a genius?” Walker projectionist Justin Ayd and his wife Jennifer reflect on Dennis Hopper’s “intriguingly exasperating” 1971 film The Last Movie, screening at the Walker Cinema July 31 and August 2 as part of the Lost Films and Restorations series.
