Time Theorem

(Teorema de tiempo)
Andrés Kaiser | Documentary

2022 | 90 minutes | Mexico

Years after the death of my grandmother Anita, I found thousands of photographs and hundreds of home movies. The images revealed their secret profession as amateur filmmakers.

Cinema Studies Family Migration Studies Latin American Studies
Synopsis

Years after the death of my grandmother Anita, I inspected the old building where she and my grandfather Arnoldo worked all their lives as printers. Among offset machines, accounting notebooks, and paper envelopes smelling of mothballs, I found thousands of photographs and hundreds of home movies. The images not only revealed their secret profession as amateur filmmakers, but also related a line of painful family tragedies that marked the destiny of their existence.

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Main credits

Kaiser, Andrés (film director)
Kaiser, Andrés (screenwriter)
Pinto, Nicole Maynard (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, Arnoldo Kaiser, Anita Schlittler; editing, Andrés Kaiser, Lorenzo Mora; music, Alejandro Castaños.


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Festivals

Moscow International Film Festival; Munich International Documentary Festival; Guanajuato International Film Festival - Best Mexican Documentary Feature; Biarritz Amerique Latine Festival

DIRECTOR: Andrés Kaiser

NATIONALITY: Mexico

YEAR: 2022

GENRE: Documentary

LANGUAGE: Spanish; German; Other languages

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults

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