Interview:
Kyle Henry,
director,
Jason Wehling,
producer,
"Time Passages"
During the early months of the 2020 COVID lockdown, former Austin-based filmmaker Kyle Henry’s thoughts often turned to his mother Elaine, who was living with dementia. Henry was stuck at home in Chicago; Elaine in a memory care facility in Rochester, NY. Henry, who could only Facetime once a week with Elaine, constantly lived in fear for Elaine’s health at a time when COVID was sweeping through care facilities. At the same time, Henry’s Austin-based producer Jason Wehling was working on a video diary project for PBS. While that project fell through, the diary entries Henry created for Wehling would serve the basis of Henry’s new documentary, Time Passages. Through the use of family photos and audiovisual recordings, as well as speculative interviews and stop-motion animation, Henry chronicles Elaine’s life, career, and artistic ambitions while also reflecting on the close relationship that he, as the youngest of five children, shared with his mother. Time Passages screens at 2:30 p.m. May 4 at the AFS Cinema during the Austin Film Society’s Doc Days 2024. Texas native Kyle Henry, a former Austinite who now serves as an associate professor with Northwestern University School of Communication’s Department of Radio/Television/Film, previously directed Fourplay feature anthology of city-specific shorts and the 2017 drama Rogers Park, which Jason Wehling produced. Henry also edited PJ Raval’s Before You Know It and Heather Courtney’s Where Soldiers Come From, among other documentaries. Austin-based Jason Wehling previously produced the documentaries Horton Foote: The Road to Home, J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius, The Jones Family Will Make a Way, and America’s Parking Lot, The Jones Family Will Make a Way, Horton Foote: The Road to Home, J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius as well as the narrative features Saturday Morning Mystery, The Retrieval, Slash, and The Honor Farm, which was directed by Time Passages editor Karen Skloss.
Aired: April 24, 2024. Web sites: https://www.timepassagesfilm.com/ https://www.austinfilm.org/screening/time-passages/ |
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