Moving portrait of the film-maker’s father, once a famous American football player, now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and not a shadow of the former sport star. Pellington has taken his shots form the family archive.His relatives try to make life as bearable as possible for the severely mentally handicapped father. Mark’s mother has to live with a man who is not dead, but nor is he really alive.
Three short and subtle autobiographical films by the experimental film-maker Guy Sherwin from a long series he aptly calls the Short Film Series.Portrait with my…
