(2024, 86 min)
Director: Kyle Henry
Date: Thursday, February 13th
6:00 PM Reception
7:30 Screening
Location: The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
A pandemic rages across the globe. In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, gay filmmaker and Northwestern professor 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, 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.
6pm: reception in Block Museum lobby, sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
7pm: film screening followed by a discussion with filmmaker Kyle Henry; Ai-jen Poo, President, National Domestic Workers Alliance & Executive Director, Caring Across Generations; and Northwestern Professor of Psychology Dan McAdams. Moderator: Ines Sommer, Director of the Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab.
This event is co-presented by Block Cinema, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, MFA in Documentary Media, Department of Radio/TV/Film, and the Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab.