HD-DCP, 84 minutes.  
Photographic
Memory
2011
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


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