Handwritten snippets of dialogue, mysterious phone numbers and location ideas are scrawled across the pages of incendiary director Larry Clark’s production notes, made during the filming of his new feature, Marfa Girl. “His process is loose,” says Matt Black, director of yesterday’s video feature on Clark, of the legendary filmmaker’s methods. “He did a first draft of 25 pages, and then as he was shooting he’d collect little visual ideas, such as ‘guy with a gold tooth’, ‘scene at a swimming pool’, or ‘boy gives girl a medallion of Jesus’.” Released in the form of a limited edition facsimile published by Boo-Hooray, Marfa Gurl, the notebooks provide unrivaled insight into Clark’s creative mind, famous for finding beauty in the sordid side of adolescence in America. His latest film was inspired by a visit to contemporary artist Christopher Wool’s home in Marfa, a West Texas desert town that has become an unlikely destination for a creative elite fascinated by its minimalist sculptural installations but largely ignorant of its small-town drifters and melting-pot community. Starring first-time actors Adam Mediano and Drake Burnette, the film and its accompanying archive of ideas and inspiration show that the veteran Clark has little interest in slowing down his investigations. “Larry is 69 now and still has this mad energy,” says Black. “He continues to have a drive to depict America and its youth, the subcultures we don’t see.”