Bob's Funeral | movie | 2024 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral. | dG1fc0dmY1ZRdlZkTzA

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00:00uh hi my name is jack dunphy i'm a filmmaker my new film bob's funeral will be premiering at the

00:142024 sundance film festival as a part of the documentary short program this is jack

00:21holding his grandfather respectfully all right don't laugh and don't chew the gum

00:26this was my grandpa bob sorry the sticky tack off because you can see it through

00:32this was my semi-estrange grandfather bob this was my dad mark freeman and my dad didn't seem to

00:40have a good relationship with his father and that made me sad the idea that a father and son could

00:45have such a fraught relationship so i use my grandpa's strange funeral as a lens to explore

00:51my own complicated relationship with my dad and i i've been thinking what does a man's person

00:58humans funeral say about them you can let go i've actually been in sundance a couple times before

01:08my first time was with my first real short film ever called serenity about me losing my virginity

01:13in kind of an awkward disturbing way the second time was with a film called checkoff which kind

01:19predicted my dad's death which was eerie i think i was too young to be in sundance i was scared of

01:24everyone i was in a buffet line with verner herzog at one point and i remember thinking if you're gonna

01:29say anything to him now's the time but i couldn't i make my films because it's a way for me to process

01:37the events of my life and it keeps me sane it's a compulsion so my intentions are not altruistic

01:45because i would be doing it for myself anyway but when someone comes up to me and says that

01:49something i did really helped them or made them feel less alone the best art i think makes you feel

01:55less alone it's life affirming even if it's sad um that is truly the most gratifying part and

02:03um it it keeps you going and it's more fulfilling than any potential verner herzog interaction so i'm

02:12going into the festival with a better mindset this time i'm trying to and uh i hope to meet some of

02:18you cool people out there thank you for checking out my short bob's funeral enjoy the festival and um

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