Movie Details
Original Language:English
Waving
DirectorAnn Marie Fleming
6 min
Plot
Waving was made after her grandmothers sudden death of an aneurysm A poetic monologue drafts the films narrative the filmmakers voice impelling a succession of images drawn from a lifetime of family Her text hinges on an identification with her grandmother that begins as an infant and carries on into adulthood I was just like granny she says but goes on to hint of a compact too closely drawnof a bodily sympathy that relates the ills of one generation to the next Their common ailments join the bodies of young and old beneath the sign of mortality sharing the certainty of a bodys failure
