Google “Bigfoot,” like I just did, and you might be surprised to find news reports of fresh sightings. Who knew? But whatever your awareness level regarding the legendary bipeds, Marq Evans’ new documentary is a fascinating exploration of a very specific piece of Americana, centering on a colorful collection of aging cowboys in Yakima, Washington. At the heart of the doc is the source material that kicked off a half-century-and-counting of hopeful believers, indefatigable hunters, and the industry that’s grown up around them: a 1967 piece of film clocking in at 59 seconds, its authenticity long debated, its grainy imagery minutely parsed.
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Shot in California’s thickly forested far north and known as the Patterson-Gimlin film, it captures the vision of a female Bigfoot lumbering across a sandbar. For many, including some of the interviewees in Evans’ film, that shaky minute of 16mm footage
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