Billy Luck (2026)

Over 25 years ago, filmmaker Jeff Krulik fell into the orbit of Chris Earnshaw—a manic, magnetic local photographer, musician, and writer who doubles as a living encyclopedia of Washington, DC’s lost cultural and architectural soul. What started as a simple documentary project soon became an obsession: Jeff and Chris roamed the city streets while Chris riffed on the vanishing landmarks he’d been capturing on film since childhood, amassing thousands of forgotten images. But as the years and hours of footage piled up, the tables turned. Chris skyrocketed into the local art scene, landing a front-page feature in the Washington Post Arts section, while Jeff’s original documentary spiraled out of control, morphing into something wildly unexpected. Part portrait, part unraveling, this film by Jeff Krulik, Greg DeLiso, and Dina Selfridge traces the strange metamorphosis from chronicler to accomplice to mirror image.