Remake

The death of his son suddenly causes Ross McElwee to reassess his approach to filmmaking and to his own life’s work.

Drawing from decades of footage, some shot by Ross, some by Adrian, the film is a layered excavation of memory and image making. Threaded through is the ghost of another project: a stalled effort by Hollywood to fictionalise McElwee’s 1986 classic, Sherman’s March. What emerges is a work shaped by absence and propelled forward by the urge to keep looking, even when there’s no clear story left to tell.