Time Indefinite (1993) [N/A]
Featuring:
Steve Ascher, Michael Blumenthal, Robert Gardner
Written by:
Ross McElwee
Directed by:
Ross McElwee
Release Date:
May 12, 1993
Original Title:
Time Indefinite
Alternate Titles:
Määräämätön aika
Nevymezený cas
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Channel 4 Television
Homemade Movies
ZDF
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 114
Love, family, and the search for better camera angles.
After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the sudden string of deaths, McElwee becomes depressed. After spending time with his friend and former high school poetry teacher, Charlene, he goes to meet his brother, a doctor. In a series of interviews, McElwee contemplates his morbid preoccupation with death and tries to figure out how to shake it off.
Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn Levine - marriage something that he and his family never thought would happen for him - McElwee turns on the camera to film life as it happens in respect to this new phase in his life. Both in real terms (as it applies to himself and those around him) and philosophical terms, McElwee discusses, through self-narration, life, death, love, family and babies.
