Best of Fest
Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award (Amsterdam)
Remake
Ross McElwee / USA / 2025 / 116′
In Remake, director Ross McElwee turns his attention to the passage of time and the ambiguous space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian and the fragile bond the camera created between them when Adrian was alive and now that he is gone. Drawing on decades of footage, some shot by Ross, some by Adrian, the film becomes a layered exploration of memory and image-making. Acting as a common thread is the ghost of another project: a failed attempt by Hollywood to adapt McElwee’s 1986 classic for film, Sherman’s March. What emerges is a work shaped by absence and driven by the impulse to keep looking, even when there is no longer a clear story to tell.
Director Ross McElwee
Screenplay Ross McElwee
Editing Ross McElwee, Joe Bini
Produced by Mark Meatto, Ross McElwee
INTRASTEVERE CINEMA – Room 1, May 26, 7 p.m.
Introduced by Karen Maldoy, Project Leader Beeld & Geluid)
Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker whose work blends autobiography, cultural observation and humor. His breakthrough film, Sherman’s March, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2005, MoMA presented a comprehensive retrospective of his work, which subsequently screened in Paris, Seoul, Quito, Madrid and Moscow.