Your mom's home movies, but make it devastatingly poetic.
Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while talking to her children. A filmic note in the form of an essay based on material made in Super 8. "Of which there are no limits, and full of affection and imagination", says the author.
Direction
Gaitán edits her own childhood like a detective solving herself.
Cinematography
Super 8 decay becomes aesthetic—the medium IS the memory.
Director
Paula Gaitán
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Brazil's 'cinema de família' movement, where directors turn domestic footage into national memory.
Paula's son Eryk Rocha became a celebrated director; this film accidentally documents his origin story as cinema royalty.
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