My Mommy Movie(s)

Abstract

My Mommy Movie(s) is an essay film about the difficulty of capturing a human life and transforming it into a work of cinematic entertainment. The film utilizes a variety of different forms and filmic styles to attempt to tell a non-traditional story of a relationship between mother and son. This hybrid approach included the use of archival material from my childhood, discarded footage from my own personal archive as a filmmaker, public domain footage and music from the internet, verite-esque documentary footage of the present, as well as the footage from an unreleased fiction film about my mother. The combination of these seemingly disparate sources all work to try and honestly capture the uncapturable, the essence of an individual.