Remake

In his first film in fourteen years, McElwee focuses on the passage of time and the gap between documenting and understanding life. The film traces the director’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive and continues to create now that he’s gone. Drawing on decades of footage, it becomes a layered exploration of memory and image-making. Threaded throughout is the ghost of another project: a stalled effort by Hollywood to fictionalise his 1986 classic, Sherman’s March. The result is shaped by absence and propelled by the urge to keep looking.