AN EVER-EXPANDING HALL OF MIRRORS BUILT FROM DECADES OF HOME MOVIES.

The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life's work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee's first feature, "Sherman's March", into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective.

The latest from pioneering autobiographical documentarian Ross McElwee, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, which itself becomes part of the story. What begins as an account of adapting his 1985 breakout "Sherman's March" into a fiction feature expands into an intensely vulnerable reckoning with his life's work and legacy, and a love letter to his son Adrian. You don't need to know McElwee's decades of diaristic filmmaking to feel the gut-punch, but for those who do, every second of old footage takes on new meaning.

Languages: English. English closed captions available.