‘Windmill’ director assembled a puzzle that had ‘no picture’

Alexander Olch made “The Windmill Movie’’ about his late teacher Richard P. Rogers. (The Film Desk)

By Linda Matchan

Globe Staff / July 17, 2009

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Richard P. Rogers had made 18 films, taught film at Harvard, and spent 30 years struggling to make a documentary about his life when he died at 57 in 2001, leaving behind boxes of film and an unfinished project. His wife, Susan Meiselas, a photographer, commissioned Alexander Olch, a former student of her husband, to sift through the boxes and ... (Full article: 859 words)