Documentary Club: Time Passages with Director Kyle Henry

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Adults: 18 and up, Seniors: 55 and up. Join us for a Documentary Club screening of Time Passages, followed by a Q&A discussion with the director, Kyle Henry. About the Film A pandemic rages across the globe. In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, gay filmmaker Kyle Henry uses his extensive family archive to travel back in time, exploring the complicated bonds of identity, history, and belonging in his large Texas family. Charting Elaine’s promising early life through her years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, finally tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, Time Passages playfully explores Kyle’s conflicting feelings of love, grief, guilt, and helplessness. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies lie the difficult truths that so many families hide. With their unearthing, Time Passages becomes a memento mori: a testament to love, legacy and the things that carry us through life’s most challenging times. © Kyle Henry | 86 minutes | Not Rated About the Director For 30 years, Kyle has traversed film forms to bring authentic stories of interrelationship to audiences at fests, theaters, and streaming platforms. His fictions use documentary methods to devise stories based on research, creating deeper authenticity. His documentaries use fictional techniques to portray interior worlds of subjective memory and thought. From his SXSW premiered documentaries University Inc.'s exploration of toxic higher-ed corporatization and American Cowboy’s sensitive stereotype toppling portrayal of a gay rodeo champ; to Sundance and Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight premiered fiction feature Room’s psychic journey of a working class woman in post-9/11 America, Fourplay's vivid investigation of sexual intimacy, to Chicago set Rogers Park's “eye for the intimate, dividend-paying gesture” (NYTimes) that is “brimming with universal truths” (Chicago Sun-Times), his deep mining of human experience has the purposeful goal of facilitating communit