I began making film baskets when I taught with Marge Brown, a filmmaker at The Evergreen State College where I work. I asked our students for the out- takes from their films so I could make her a present.  It was an interesting material, and I enjoyed the notion of recycling film and gaining control over a medium that had historically been used by both Hollywood and documentary film makers to stereotype American Indians.  I relished the irony of making film take on the traditional fancy stitch patterns of Onondaga and Micmac ash splint and sweet grass baskets.  Soon my other friends on the film faculty wanted baskets, and I began to develop more complex patterns and to use fullcoat, an opaque material used in sound editing, and leader as well as exposed film. I enjoy creating titles to contextualize these baskets and often choose materials to ironic purpose.  The choice of weaving stitches, many of which have names, is deliberate.