Brecht Andersch co-founded the Austin Film Society in 1985-87, during which time he discovered the works of Belson, Maclaine, and others of the Beat world. In 1991, he appeared as the “Dostoyevsky Wannabe” in Richard Linklater’s SLACKER. Andersch worked as a film projectionist at SFMOMA from 2000-2020. He served as a columnist on film for SFMOMA’s blog, Open Space, from 2010 until 2021, during which he published the 17-part IN SEARCH OF CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE, largely consisting of “The THE END Tour,” documenting many of the film’s locations and entirely uncredited cast, and containing the first book-length explication of the film’s many fragmented mysteries. Andersch’s debut feature film, BRUNO UNDERGROUND, photographed in 16mm B&W largely by Paul Clipson, is in final stages of post-production. He currently works as relief projectionist at the Stanford Theatre.