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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.
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00:00Hi Dad, Adrian. Sorry about yesterday, I had a really hard day.
00:07Why do you think you like fishing so much?
00:10I'm an artist of the deep surprise of the ocean.
00:17First there is a father, and he has a son.
00:21Then it starts all over.
00:23I am now the father, and I have a son.
00:26But something goes awry. Something goes off script.
00:31And then suddenly, you're gone.
00:40A Hollywood producer is interested in trying to remake my documentary,
00:45Sherman's March, as a fiction film.
00:47It always just stuck with me.
00:48I'd be elated, I just don't quite know how it can be done.
00:51Can a movie bomb twice?
00:52Turn it off.
00:54This is not art, this is life!
00:56The story I thought I was telling with my filmmaking,
00:59the story of lives lived over decades,
01:02is now disjointed.
01:04Let's go.
01:05The reels were all out of order.
01:07Don't film me right now.
01:12Was it filming?
01:14Yes.
01:14Bruggalo, Bruggalo.
01:18Do you ever think about reversing the role sometimes a bit more?
01:22Ooh.
01:22Well, we'll drop it.
01:23Why don't we turn it off for now?
01:25Sure.
01:26People don't want to see a film about me,
01:27they want to see a film about what I see.
01:30Memory is partly about connecting the past to the present.
01:37That's how you remember something, you care about it.
01:39One, two, three.
01:42Yes, you're gone.
01:44Except you're not gone.
01:46Because I still have all these moments with you,
01:48captured on film.
01:50Is that going to come on the film?
01:52It depends on whether I edit it out.
01:54I want you to keep it on.
01:55Of.
01:58InPPP.
02:00Oh, me no.
02:00Of.
02:01Oh, me no.
02:01So一直 andzwischen,
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