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.
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.
Citation
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Pragda subjects
Cinema Studies
Family
Latin American Studies
Migration Studies
Keywords
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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
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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