“...a moving and heart-wrenching portrayal of a loving mother-son relationship.”
- Sing Tao Chinese Radio
ABOUT THE FILM
A pandemic rages across the globe. In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, gay filmmaker Kyle Henry uses his extensive family archive to travel back in time, exploring the complicated bonds of identity, history, and belonging in his large Texas family. Charting Elaine’s promising early life through her years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, finally tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, Time Passages playfully explores Kyle’s conflicting feelings of love, grief, guilt, and helplessness. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies lie the difficult truths that so many families hide. With their unearthing, Time Passages becomes a memento mori: a testament to love, legacy and the things that carry us through life’s most challenging times.
ACCOLADES
"... a film that celebrates life in its multifaceted complexity.”
- RogerEbert.com
“... delightful and inventive … a sincere and often funny and playful journey about making meaning from our family stories.”
- Austin Film Society
“ a richly constructed scrapbook… meticulously crafted ... puts a spotlight on how families grapple with dementia and care … opens the door for connections with other families”
- Hyperreal Film Club
“ … a powerhouse and transformative film that blends raw emotions with dynamic storytelling …”
- Cinequest
★★★1/2
"...really resonated with me and will likely do the same for anyone who has had a special connection with their mother.”
- Pal Cinema
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