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The "found footage" genre has been around for some time, in both fictional form (1999's  The Blair Witch Project ) and nonfiction form (1927's  The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty ). If one considers the overwhelming amount of available found footage content online, namely through social media videos that people Snap or Tweet or Facebook Live every few seconds, it becomes clear that we need to gauge this appropriated art catalog through a new cultural viewfinder. It also prompts us to ask this important question: What public imagery is worthy of being curated for studied viewing? Russian filmmaker  Dmitrii Kalashnikov 's The Road Movie  (distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories ) is a good example of social videos being culled together to give us a surprising and thoughtful insight into how we behave and feel -- today. The Road Movie is a moving image montage that is comprised of dashboard camera footage from dozens of Russian drivers, from all walks of life. As ...