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The pic’s pleasures are subtle yet resonant.” -Eddie Cockrell, Variety “With droll wit and fearless instinct for turning an unblinking lens on his life’s minutiae, Ross McElwee continues his Socratic mandate of living a fully examined life with the assured and insightful “Photographic Memory,” in which the inevitable sojourn into his past once again helps him understand the present and brace for the future. But in the hands of this veteran documentarian, that which might be self-indulgent egomania from a lesser artist is often the stuff of quiet revelation…simple, genuinely moving.” “Some might characterize what filmmaker Ross McElwee does as navel-gazing. McElwee’s documentaries.” - Stephen Holden, The New York Times “McElwee is a homespun philosopher who finds exceptional moments in everyday life and records it all through his camera lens.” - Leonard Maltin, Indiewire “Beguiling…What finds in “Photographic Memory” is utterly delightful.” Praise for Ross McElwee’s PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY What the Critics are Saying Tomatometer Critics 94% | Audience 64% La Lucarne de ARTE recently celebrated its first decade, during which it showcased work by established filmmakers (Chris Marker, Alain Cavalier, Naomi Kawase, Alexandre Sokourov, Lech Kowalski) as well as programs by emerging documentarians. Disseminated by Arte / France, its shows are made available to viewers in France, Germany, Belgium, and Austria.

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Photographic Memory is its first film.įrench Connection Films produces reports, documentaries, corporate videos, film shorts and music videos.Their work has broadcast on the Arte, France 3, France 5, TVE (Spain), YLE (Finland), AVRO (Netherlands), RTP (Portugal), Canal Plus (Africa, Poland), SBS (Australia), RAI (Italy), TV5 Monde, Voyage, Odyssee, Seasons, MCM Africa, and KTO Television.Īn open window for documentary creativity, La Lucarne (the skylight) is that rare place on television that welcomes idiosyncratic non-fiction works.

Quay Films, based in Boston, USA, is an independent documentary production company created in 2009 by Marie Emmanuelle Hartness and Ross McElwee. But if I may say so, it’s still stubbornly Proustian. In fact some moments in the film are fairly outrageous. “That’s so boring, Dad!“ So I placed scenes of him throughout the film, and now it is not so boring. At first, I imagined my film, shot in a French village where I had found work as a wedding photographer 38 years ago, might be a kind of Proustian meditation on lost love, the accuracy and fallacy of memory, and what it means to take a photograph. In Photographic Memory, I try doing both. Raising a teenage son is far more difficult than making a documentary film, but to attempt to do both simultaneously is madness. 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. 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. Quay since that visit, and hopes to gain some perspective on what his own life was like when he was his son’s age. 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. The filmmaker undertakes a journey to St.

To the father, the son seems to be addicted to and permanently distracted by those worlds. 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. This was the official website fir the 2012 film, Photographic Memory, by Ross McElwee.Ĭontent is from the site's 2012 archived pages and other outside sources.

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