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REMAKE
A Film by Ross McElwee
For nearly 40 years, Ross McElwee has made closely observed and profoundly subjective documentaries, but the death of his son suddenly causes him to reassess his approach to filmmaking and to his own life’s work.
SYNOPSIS
Director Ross McElwee explores time and memory through footage of his son Adrian, weaving their shared filmmaking past with an unfinished Hollywood remake of “Sherman’s March”, creating a meditation on loss and documentation.
The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s first feature — “Sherman’s March” — into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie-making and mortality.
Ian Darling, Co-Executive Producer.
SYNOPSIS
Director Ross McElwee explores time and memory through footage of his son Adrian, weaving their shared filmmaking past with an unfinished Hollywood remake of “Sherman’s March”, creating a meditation on loss and documentation.
The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s first feature — “Sherman’s March” — into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie-making and mortality.
Ian Darling, Co-Executive Producer.