The True Adventures of Aargh-X (Wildman of Mystery) is planned as a series short episodic films resembling a series of coming attractions for a feature that never really gets completed. The project grows out of found footage, home movies and experimental narrative to tell stories using an elliptical, collage approach.

As in the short film Media Darling, a series of characters will be revealed and developed to then fade into a swarm of images that only peripherally allude to the storyline. When the characters return, the viewer is armed with ideas not necessarily matching those of the person seated in an adjacent seat. Ambiguity gives way to clarity which is then contradicted by some precise narrative element. The story proceeds on like a pop song lyric -- a simple romantic complaint possibly, but also aware of a greater sense of doom.

The central character of Ava Berliner exists primarily as a 1950's home movie subject, combined with a variety of women from period films, all re-drawn as a bold heroine. The footage is full of nostalgic presence and the woman seems to possess a heroic charisma, but something seems amiss. Her voice exudes earnestness, but the outrageous nature of the situations leads one to believe that she is terminally deluded.

The ragtag Aargh-X could not possibly be construed for a real Bigfoot, but he seems to think he is, and the pseudo-scientific narrator refutes the idea that it was originally a promotional hoax. The answer lies in the illusion of fame and the mistruths induced by the harsh light of media scrutiny. It is a 20th Century period piece of epic, but of farcical proportions.

The inspiration for the two main characters comes from Amelia Earhart, the well-known aviatrix and Ishi, the last of the Yahi Indians and sole survivor of the California Indian massacres who gave himself up to modern society in 1911. For society, Ishi's origins are a mystery and Amelia's destiny a mystery. This tale imagines the possibility that the two archetypes briefly meet on their arcs through history.