Henry Fonda is arguably one of America's most important actors, a cultural icon known for such famous roles as President Abraham Lincoln, Western hero Wyatt Earp, and Juror No. 8 in films by John Ford, Sidney Lumet, Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, and many others. Henry Fonda for President, Austrian film historian and curator Alexander Horwath’s debut in filmmaking, is a monumental video essay that uses the biography and prolific career of actor Henry Fonda as a socio-political interpretive filter of the collective imaginary of the United States and its founding myths, grounded in cultural history, symptomatic reading, and a speculative approach.