Film panel notetaker5/25/2023 ![]() What sort of guiding principle do you have in your editing choices?ĭews: I think a lot of the things I’m happiest with about the film happened through necessity. Nugent: In looking at the film again I realized, with the exception of one shot, there really isn’t sync sound footage in the film. She would talk with me about lots of other things…It was really crazy to hear this life that she had that I had no idea about. She in fact never really talked with me about Charley. ![]() I was very close to my grandmother…I was born about the end of the story. I always knew about the films, but my uncle’s ex-wife told me about the tapes…It was kind of shocking actually. Nugent: How did you come across the tapes and what was it like the first time for you to listen to them?ĭews: I actually found out about the tapes really late. (I have not included any of the audience Q&A because most of those questions pertain to specific things that go on in the film, and I don’t want to give too much away. David Nugent, head programmer of HIFF, moderated last night’s discussion. MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH, which debuted last fall at the Hamptons International Film Festival, will be distributed by Gigantic Releasing and opens Feb. The entire film is told through these documentations without any narration or talking heads. Last night’s Stranger Than Fiction was Morgan Dews’ MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH, “a documentary about documentation” or in other words, Dews took his late Grandmother Allis’ home movies and audio tapes from the 1960s and constructed them into one cohesive story arc dealing with Allis’ unconventional relationship with her husband Charley and the psychological effects it had on their four children. The below blog is by Brian Geldin and reprinted from The Film Panel Notetaker
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