Film Screening:

“Remake”
(Ross McElwee, 2026, 116 min, USA, DCP)

Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. His son Adrian grew up inside those films, and eventually began experimenting with the camera himself. When a Hollywood producer acquires the rights to adapt McElwee’s 1986 breakthrough “Sherman’s March” into a work of fiction, twenty-year-old Adrian sees a chance for his father to finally reach a wider audience. As the adaptation stalls, Adrian gets swept into a deepening drug addiction and dies from a fentanyl overdose, leaving behind hours of personal video footage. Retracing Adrian’s final years, McElwee reckons with what his camera captured and what remained hauntingly out of frame. As he reflects on a lifetime behind the camera, Ross’s own effort to remix and remake the movie that Adrian never got to finish takes on new significance. An ever-expanding hall of mirrors built from decades of home movies, “Remake” is both McElwee’s attempt to hold onto his son, and to let him go.

“A profound and piercing portrait of loss” — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

“One of the great American filmmakers is back with a crushing cautionary tale. It’s the best movie of the year so far.” — Sam Adams, Slate

“Lovelorn, thoughtful and deeply moving, this is a film you’ll really want to talk about.” — Phil de Semlyen, Time Out