When he heard Patrick Amiot and Brigitte Laurent were building a full-size carousel with 44 moving junk-art figures, he thought that should be documented. He approached filmmaker Eric McIntyre and they paired up to make Junkyard Alchemist. The film chronicles the building of the carousel from its inception in 2012 at Amiot’s studio just south of Sebastopol through its completion and re-assembly in the Toronto suburb of Markham in mid-2016.