Finding My Father
Documentary logline – inspired by his father’s childhood memories in Iran, an artist creates his most ambitious installation to date in hopes of evoking a closer connection with his father. But things don’t go as expected when its reception steers the pair into uncharted territory.
Broadcast on Knowledge Network and nominated for Best Documentary in Arts/Culture at the prestigious Yorkton Film Festival in 2023.
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“The nature of memory is reconstructive, not reproductive. Whether consciously or not, we have a tendency to confabulate a preferred, even grandiose belief onto our beloved parents and their past. Through the making of this art installation and the subsequent documentary about it, I have come to realize that I too have unknowingly perpetuated a glorified myth about my father, which left me frustrated when the real-life version didn’t measure up to my expectations. I’ve come to learn that I can have a more intimate and honest relationship with my father if I accept him for who he is: a fallible, imperfect war refugee that tried his best to give us a better life with the little he had.”
Funded by the National Film Board of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts.
WATCH FULL FILM HERE, 31mins.
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