What are memories made of? “One boy, some grief, some joy”, according to Dean Martin in the song Memories Are Made of This. Like Russian dolls, they also hide other memories. Director Wetscher learned the real reason for his father’s death ten years after the latter died. Looking for more answers, he decides to study home movies from his childhood, from the time spent in forest walks with his dad. What will he find beyond the haze of video tapes?
Wetscher is a photographer and director whose work questions loss and search of identity. With a disarming simplicity and the use of a specific song by Sade, he delivers a powerful meditation on remembrance and fatherhood. Pain hides, love shines. Two-dimensional images are bottomless pits of questions, and mementos generate different narratives according to how you look at them. Memories are made of what you feed them.