Photographic Memory (film)

Photographic Memory is a 2011 documentary film by independent filmmaker Ross McElwee about a voyage back to the roots of his involvement with the camera.[1]

Photographic Memory
Directed byRoss McElwee
Written byRoss McElwee, Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness
Produced byMarie-Emmanuelle Hartness and Ross McElwee
StarringAdrian McElwee, Ross McElwee
CinematographySean Wilcox, Ross McElwee, Adrian McElwee,
Edited bySabrina Zanella-Foresi
Music byDane Walker, DJ Flack and Charles Mingus
Production
company
St Quay Films
Distributed byFirst Run Features
Release date
  • September 1, 2011 (2011-09-01) (Venice Film Festival)
Running time
84 minutes
CountriesUnited States
France
LanguagesEnglish, French
Box officeUS$599,435.00

Photographic Memory premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and won the Sheffield Youth Jury Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June 2012.

Synopsis

The filmmaker finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, who is no longer the delightful child the father loved, but an argumentative young adult who inhabits virtual worlds available through the internet. To the father, the son seems to be addicted to and permanently distracted by those worlds. The filmmaker undertakes a journey to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany where he worked for a spring as a wedding photographer's assistant at age 24 –slightly older than his son is now. He has not been back to St. Quay since that visit, and hopes to gain some perspective on what his own life was like when he was his son's age. He also hopes to track down his former employer, a fascinating Frenchman named Maurice, and Maud, a woman with whom he was romantically involved during that spring 38 years ago. Photographic Memory is a meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, digital versus analog, and the fractured love of a father for his son.

References
  1. Anderson, John (October 5, 2012). "Camera Angling to Reconcile Then and Now". The New York Times.


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