{"id":1141,"date":"2026-07-24T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:42:11","slug":"remake-will-shift-your-perspective-on-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRemake\u201d will shift your perspective on grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<section><p>Early in his extraordinary new documentary, \u201cRemake,\u201d seasoned filmmaker Ross McElwee reminisces with his young son, Adrian, about their travels together, presenting McElwee\u2019s films at various festivals around the world. \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite place that we\u2019ve been to, Adrian?\u201d McElwee asks his son in the archival footage. Adrian recalls a snafu from the Munich Film Festival, but can\u2019t quite remember the details. McElwee explains that the numbers on his film reels were mislabeled, causing extended confusion as they tried to put the footage back in the correct, chronological order. Still a child, Adrian looks off into the distance, biting his gelato spoon while registering the information.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1136\">\u201cThe Man Will Burn\u201d accidentally shows why people despise Burning Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then the footage burns out, replaced by shots of Adrian across his youth, preserved in celluloid amber: raking leaves on an autumn afternoon, waving a sparkler around in the summertime, looking at himself in the mirror as a baby. McElwee\u2019s voice, more mature and stoic than before, fades in. \u201cThe story I thought I was telling with my filmmaking, the stories of lives lived over decades, is now disjointed, confused \u2014 the reels are all out of order,\u201d he says. \u201cFirst there is a father, and he has a son: me. But then it starts all over. I am now father, and I have a son: you. But something goes awry. Something goes off-script. And then, suddenly, you\u2019re gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemake\u201d is McElwee\u2019s first film in 15 years, appearing like a jewel out of a mountain of life\u2019s rubble. His extended absence from filmmaking was necessitated by Adrian\u2019s death in 2016 and the monumental torrent of confusion and emotional displacement that followed. McElwee\u2019s last documentary, 2011\u2019s \u201cPhotographic Memory,\u201d saw Adrian as a young adult, trying to come into his own and figure out his place in life amid a shifting social landscape riddled with digital black holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1138\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83f7f44b02e55355e6396fa903b0c509-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83f7f44b02e55355e6396fa903b0c509-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83f7f44b02e55355e6396fa903b0c509-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83f7f44b02e55355e6396fa903b0c509-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83f7f44b02e55355e6396fa903b0c509-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83f7f44b02e55355e6396fa903b0c509.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Music Box Films)<\/span> Adrian McElwee in \u201cRemake\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>McElwee stitches together the past and present to find new meaning in their seams, a jagged line that runs through time and points toward the future. To call his latest film a contemporary masterwork would be true, but there\u2019s also no quantifying the magic McElwee conjures here, no comparing it to anything else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In that film, McElwee set out to reconcile his somewhat fractured relationship with Adrian, who\u2019d become distant and disillusioned compared to his spritely, curious youth, by traveling back to France, where he worked as a photographer\u2019s assistant in his early 20s. In retracing his steps, McElwee sought to understand Adrian better, to comprehend the grasp digital media had on his son in contrast to his own fascination with the analog film camera he frequently used to capture his family, both for his own memories and for his documentaries. In \u201cRemake,\u201d McElwee laments the hope that making \u201cPhotographic Memory\u201d gave him, an aspiration that he was depicting his son on the cusp of finding his way through the dark. \u201cThe film might\u2019ve been shot as a documentary,\u201d McElwee says, \u201cbut now it\u2019s fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemake\u201d may be the story and study of a tragedy. But McElwee\u2019s nonlinear construction and brusque, confessional narration slowly transform the film into something much deeper, a poignant work of art that instantly yet subtly aligns itself with the great stories of our time. His mission is unassuming. This is a film McElwee feels compelled to make, as if it were something living inside of him that had to be excised by any means necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so. McElwee stitches together the past and present to find new meaning in their seams, a jagged line that runs through time and points toward the future. To call his latest film a contemporary masterwork would be true, but there\u2019s also no quantifying the magic McElwee conjures here, no comparing it to anything else. \u201cRemake\u201d is a truly singular piece of art, a self-reflexive rumination on life and the result of all its passions. It is memory embodied.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime in the 2010s, McElwee received a call from director and producer Steve Carr, who wanted to explore remaking his breakthrough documentary, 1986\u2019s \u201cSherman\u2019s March,\u201d into a narrative film. \u201cSherman\u2019s March\u201d loosely explored McElwee\u2019s hapless search for love during a trip to his native South, where he planned on making a film about a Civil War campaign through the area. Along the way, the movie became less about American history and more about McElwee\u2019s family and his experiences with religion and relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carr, the director of fun-for-the-whole-family crowdpleasers like \u201cDaddy Day Care\u201d and \u201cPaul Blart: Mall Cop,\u201d didn\u2019t exactly seem like the best candidate to take on something as intricate as \u201cSherman\u2019s March.\u201d But at the time, a teenage Adrian, hoping to break into the more commercial side of the film business, was vexed by his father\u2019s reluctance to pursue Hollywood money-makers. So, in hopes that a remake might bring the two of them together in some way, McElwee signed the rights to \u201cSherman\u2019s March\u201d over to Carr, with a condition: McElwee would be granted access to produce a making-of documentary about the new film. McElwee set up his camera to film himself the day he signed the contract. He preferred an easygoing static tripod shot \u2014 a point Adrian contested, as is shown in the film. After some back and forth, McElwee relented, letting Adrian try his slow zooms and dynamic shots. The final product in \u201cRemake\u201d is a combination of the two styles, with the loving squabble between a father and his son left in the middle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemake\u201d is often startingly honest in this way. McElwee refuses to scrub the truth from his personal histories, choosing instead to confront his own regrets head-on. His regret lingers alongside his grief, allowing the viewer to understand his complex feelings of remorse. Occasionally, McElwee will verbalize his paternal contrition. But most of the time, his choices in archival footage do the talking, asking silent questions. Was he too hard on his son? Did he push him in the wrong direction by trying to reorient his path? Did the fun of the film festival circuit eventually become a blinding limelight, through which Adrian couldn\u2019t see past as he got older? None of these questions have answers. Still, McElwee seeks meaning that may be embedded somewhere in the film grain, revisiting the footage he compiled during the documentary for a remake that never came to fruition, and measuring its tenor against his finished films.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1131\">Donald Trump has stopped caring about the midterms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the process, McElwee creates a patchwork tapestry, comprised of vignettes across time. This one heartwarming, that one agonizing. Together, they form a rich yet incomplete portrait of an existence cut short, which McElwee hopes to broaden by weaving in meaning from before and after Adrian\u2019s life, all captured by McElwee\u2019s omnipresent camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1139\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e8de09c2f1c59f0a2a4e0efa7984fbd4-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e8de09c2f1c59f0a2a4e0efa7984fbd4-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e8de09c2f1c59f0a2a4e0efa7984fbd4-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e8de09c2f1c59f0a2a4e0efa7984fbd4-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e8de09c2f1c59f0a2a4e0efa7984fbd4-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e8de09c2f1c59f0a2a4e0efa7984fbd4.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Music Box Films)<\/span> Adrian McElwee in \u201cRemake\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But even that begins to feel disingenuous. There\u2019s an elephant in the room in every scene, and its lens follows the subject everywhere. \u201cRemake\u201d stars McElwee, his son and the camera \u2014 that one simple tool that connects Adrian and his father through space and time, life and death. What forged McElwee\u2019s passion and helped him establish his life\u2019s work now reveals its dual nature as the wedge that kept him and Adrian apart. For McElwee, the revelation presents a new crisis. Was he so concerned with capturing his son\u2019s malaise as Adrian became an adult that he missed details he might\u2019ve seen if one eye weren\u2019t looking through the viewfinder? Set against the backdrop of our modern culture, where we\u2019re filming everything but listening to no one, McElwee finds himself trapped in irony\u2019s clutches. In his desire to portray Adrian\u2019s immersion in parasocial worlds filled with shadowy, destructive figures, McElwee\u2019s own perspective was equally one-sided.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is a film about life, and nothing in life is ever so simple. Alongside his regret, McElwee wears compassion for himself and even more for his son, bravely journeying into Adrian\u2019s own archives, including footage from a film Adrian was making about his addiction and recovery. McElwee finds images both startling and serene; videos that fill in gaps he couldn\u2019t on his own. He lovingly omits most graphic footage, but commits to approaching his and Adrian\u2019s shared story from a different viewpoint \u2014 a remake.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cRemake\u201d stars McElwee, his son and the camera \u2014 that one simple tool that connects Adrian and his father through life and death. For McElwee, the revelation presents a new crisis. Was he so concerned with capturing his son\u2019s malaise that he missed details he might\u2019ve seen if one eye weren\u2019t looking through the viewfinder?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Throughout the film, alongside the contemplation on the sacrifices he\u2019s made for his work, McElwee repeatedly revisits the importance of filmmaking from different angles: as a tool for preservation, for storytelling, for survival. A film, especially a documentary film, can often tell the story of our lives more succinctly than we ever could. It can also distort that same story into something untruthful. It\u2019s both fact and fiction, and the meaning changes depending on your vantage point.<\/p>\n<p>This idea got me thinking about a class I took in college about ethnographic filmmaking, after an extended break from school following some of my own issues that took me off-track and made my life listless. Searching for direction, I found guidance in professor and documentary filmmaker Carolyn Strachan, whose average RateMyProfessor score hovered somewhere around 2.1. She was a stickler for analysis, whose intensive assignments were the bane of many classmates. But her thorough coursework and off-the-beaten-path syllabus of films opened my eyes to countless new ideas and perspectives. Her class reignited my passion for both writing and film, and pushed me back toward a version of myself that I recognized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1140\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3b828eda87aa2327b9d1ccad70be288a-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3b828eda87aa2327b9d1ccad70be288a-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3b828eda87aa2327b9d1ccad70be288a-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3b828eda87aa2327b9d1ccad70be288a-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3b828eda87aa2327b9d1ccad70be288a-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3b828eda87aa2327b9d1ccad70be288a.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Music Box Films)<\/span> Ross McElwee in \u201cRemake\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It took some time to realize how fundamental this course was. But when I understood the connection last year, I tried to get in touch with Professor Strachan to thank her, only to find out that, in 2022, she died after a long battle with cancer. It was a personal matter that never came up in class, but almost certainly influenced her passion for her work and her teaching. Immediately, I thought of how many of my peers complained that her assignments were too difficult, and her film choices were too unconventional to analyze easily, even for college-level writers. She wanted too much from us, they thought. Now I see that she simply wanted us to work a little harder to see how truly beautiful and varied life can be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was upset that I\u2019d never be able to thank her, to laud her for pushing students out of their comfort zones by showing them documentaries that were not easily palatable. There was nowhere to put my grief. So, I\u2019m putting some of it here. As McElwee\u2019s film reminded me, there\u2019s no easy way of making sense of life. But art is our foremost way of working through it, of trying to understand who we are, who we become and how. There\u2019s no better way to honor someone than through art, even if it\u2019s imperfect, even if it can\u2019t reflect their substantial impact, no matter how brief.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after he and Adrian reminisce about the mishap in Munich, McElwee continues his narration. \u201cSo, yes, you\u2019re gone,\u201d he says. \u201cBut you\u2019re not gone, not entirely. Because I still have all these moments with you I captured on film.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1130\">Trump is still soaking up GOP campaign cash. 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