I suppose it could be said, now that I’ve put it in those terms, that The Blair Witch Project is less the work of an auteur than it is a fortuitous meeting of talent and chance that would not repeat itself, and as such is something of a novelty, insofar as the directors (there were two), while credited with starting the ‘found footage’ genre (or for legitimizing it, and setting off a wave of imitations), are not widely known, beyond that movie, for a recognizable style, or a thematic sensibility, or the profundity of their collected works (though it’s true that, separately, they’ve continued to make movies that may have been overlooked). None of which I mean as a slight against them, for I admire them, and feel grateful to them, and would even say I have been influenced by them, but only that what they did in that instance was special, and perhaps inimitable, even for them.