00:00From where do you get inspiration for this familiar touch and why upon to you in the cinema today we
00:11don't speak about the older people, you call the film a coming of older age.
00:19So the starting point for the film was my grandmother. She was a poetry editor and intellectual and someone whose
00:26sense of self was rooted in her linguistic expression.
00:30And when she became nonverbal after a few years of suffering from dementia, my family started speaking about her almost
00:37as if she were no longer there and yet she was so physically expressive and so alive in other ways
00:44and that space between the person we spoke about as no longer there and the person in front of me
00:49who was very much alive that haunted me for many, many years.
00:53As an old person, there's a kind of terror of age in our society that people get old comes as
01:03a surprise to them and is terrifying to people who aren't old.
01:08Whereas from the point of view of the human being, it's just life. You continue, but we've lost the idea
01:17that this is, that this is, and we have some notion that it's somehow avoidable and that if we don't
01:26avoid it, we've fallen short.
01:29We've fallen short.
01:29We've fallen short.
01:29We've fallen short.
01:29We've fallen short.
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