The Work restages him: Widower, As of Yore, and the Tucson Citizen lament

texture · B.S. → Y.T.M.P. (the son's filmmaking years)

• When: Widower is dated "B.S." (early in the filmography, under the production company named Latrodectus Mactans); As of Yore is Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad; the disguised lament is spoken 1 April Y.T.M.P.
• What: Dead, he becomes his son's material. The filmography attests two direct restagings. Widower (B.S., 35 mm., shot "on location in Tucson AZ"): "a cocaine-addicted father (Watt) leads his son (Reat) around their desert property immolating poisonous spiders" — the spider-obsessed desert father, made grotesque. As of Yore (Y.T.M.P., 181 minutes): "A middle-aged tennis instructor, preparing to instruct his son in tennis, becomes intoxicated in the family’s garage and subjects his son to a rambling monologue while the son weeps and perspires." — scene 049 itself, re-run as film (see Dating notes on what this does to the monologue's evidentiary status; recorded here as the filmography's synopsis, nothing more). And J.O.I.'s production company through the early Work is Latrodectus Mactans Productions — the garage widow's Latin binomial on the letterhead. The most direct spoken memorial is the professional-conversationalist scene (1 April Y.T.M.P.), where the conversationalist mourns, in the third person, the man behind the newspaper: the boy "used to pray daily for the day his own dear late father would sit, cough, open that bloody issue of the Tucson Citizen, and not turn that newspaper into the room’s fifth wall" — "And who after all this light and noise has apparently spawned the same silence?" [Attribution note: all three attestations are the son's — a film synopsis, a film synopsis, and a disguised speaker the scene's own frame renders unreliable; recorded as the son's tellings, as printed.]