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. “It’s the shattering confusion of grief—for his son, and for his own life as he expected to lead it — yet he has made of the resulting jumble a consoling, searching work of art.” Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal

See Ross McElwee’s classic film, Sherman’s March, on October 10th.