HD-DCP, 84 minutes.  

Photographic Memory 2011

“A supreme act of paternal love.”
—Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor




The filmmaker returns to a village in France where he worked as a wedding photographer 38 years earlier. A meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, digital versus analog, and the fractured love of a father for his son.

Premiered Venice Film Festival

Directed, narrated, and filmed by Ross McElwee

Co-produced by Marie-Emmanuel Hartness and Ross McElwee