All The Presidents’ Heads from Adam Roffman on Vimeo.

One of our favorite of Pablo Maurer’s (many excellent) Abandoned D.C. posts was about a crop of presidential busts lying fallow in a field in Williamsburg, Va. His follow-up a few months later, after a blizzard blanketed them in snow, resulted in even more otherworldly photos. Ahead of President’s Day, we were delighted to learn that a filmmaker has also turned his camera on the dilapidated sculptures, and the man working to save them.

“Howard Hankins took it upon himself to try and keep these works of art alive,” says Adam Roffman, a Boston-based set dresser who shot the short documentary in November of 2015. He started screening it this September at a number of film festivals and has made it available to view for free on Vimeo.

Though Roffman grew up in Arlington, he moved before the original museum opened in 2004. By 2010, the short-lived attraction was defunct and largely forgotten. It fell to Hankins to recycle the concrete sculptures. Instead, the local businessman saved them on his own dime.

An acquaintance who was familiar with Roffman’s prior film project—which documented the museum that one man created in homage to his own spearhunting skills—suggested he check out the farm where the presidents are awaiting a third term.

Without the budget for a drone or crane, Roffman filmed the shots that bring viewers at eye level to the 15- to 20-foot tall busts from the back of Hankins’ bulldozer. The result is an intimate look at the details—like each president’s individual neckwear—that make the park such an uncanny spectacle.

“You don’t often see 42 giant heads clumped together in a field where the public aren’t even aware of them,” Roffman says.

That could change, as Hankins moves closer to making his vision for a new park a reality. On a website detailing plans for the Presidential Experience, he says he’s identified a large property near King’s Dominion that suits the park’s needs. But the vision is far grander than just a home for the heads; it includes a full-scale White House replica and several other attractions documenting life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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