Synopsis
In this short experimental documentary, filmmaker Pat Heywood explores the experience of grief in the wake of his grandmother’s death.
Bringing together voicemail messages, family photographs, webcam recordings, spiritual lectures, and Super 8 footage, the film tracks a two-year period of emotional ups and downs. As Heywood discovers joy and sorrow in observing his childhood home in Massachusetts and his present-day home in New York, we are left to meditate on how our emotions are never as black and white as the stories we tell about them.
The ultimate question is bittersweet, and always topical: what can death teach us about life?
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Credits
16 min
color / black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: English
Director
Pat Heywood
Pat Heywood
Production
Pat Heywood for Seneca Village Pictures
Pat Heywood for Seneca Village Pictures
Cinematography
Pat Heywood
Pat Heywood
Animation
Steve Drew
Steve Drew
Editing
Pat Heywood
Pat Heywood
Sound Design
EJ Markland
EJ Markland
Music
Max Friedman
Max Friedman
Screening copy
Seneca Village Pictures
Seneca Village Pictures
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The IDFA Competition for Short Documentary showcases a mosaic of styles and themes, exploring everything a short documentary film can be. The selection presents films that use the form in imaginative and ambitious ways, by filmmakers at all stages of their careers.
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