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Cinema Elvire Popesco -
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 18:00
Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 21:00
Written by:
Daniel Robin
Cast:
Stanley Robin, Beth Robin, Daniel Robin
Cinematography:
Daniel Robin
Editing:
Daniel Robin
Sound:
Daniel Robin
Music:
Gordon Vernick
Producer:
Daniel Robin
Romanian Premiere
A melancholic insight into the ties that bind us, All the Leaves Are Brown is a victory of comfort for the aging soul’s existential crisis. Deeply personal and candid in its soul-bearing, the film is structured as a diary film that catches the director in pangs of nostalgia for the city he’s left behind and his father’s accelerating Alzheimer’s. Shot on Super 8 film and using the director’s insights and intimate conversations with his father as its narration, the film is a gentle, autumnal introspection on disappearance: the director’s voice is physically fading while each passing season advances his father’s Alzheimer’s. Deeply touching and quietly devastating, Daniel Robin’s self-portrait is an elegy to memory and the ones we love. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF 2018)
Director:
Contact:
dbrabinowitz[at]neighborhoodfilms[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Jury Award: Best Documentary Short - Sidewalk Film Festival 2017
- Curtas Vil do Conde International Film Festival 2017
- Moviate Underground Film Festival 2017
- New Orleans Film Festival 2017
- Antimatter Media Festival 2017
- Cork Film Festival (Ireland) 2017
- L'Alternativa 2017 - 24th Barcelona Independent Film Festival 2017
- Analogica Selection 7 2017
- Minimalen Short Film Festival 2017
Curatorial comment:
What do we become when we realize that we are no longer what we used to be? Are we still ourselves, even though we no longer remember what we used to be? Through a collage of excerpts from conversations, thoughts, pictures of places and intimate family moments, All the Leaves Are Brown is an autobiographical reflection, in film, of the American director Daniel Robin. The nostalgia for the past and for his life in California (as in the music by The Mamas & The Papas suggested by the title) is imprinted in the beautiful landscapes shot in Super8, which are in contrast with the narrator's feeling of anguish, regarding the present and the future, a time that is characterized by what no longer exists or what has ceased to be. In a touching and intimate portrait about memory, family and loss, the fallen leaves of All the Leaves Are Brown represent the end of a season and the beginning of another cycle: Daniel knows that, next year, the tree he sees from his window will once again be filled with leaves. He will have to learn to be another one. (Lídia Queirós, Curtas Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival)
What do we become when we realize that we are no longer what we used to be? Are we still ourselves, even though we no longer remember what we used to be? Through a collage of excerpts from conversations, thoughts, pictures of places and intimate family moments, All the Leaves Are Brown is an autobiographical reflection, in film, of the American director Daniel Robin. The nostalgia for the past and for his life in California (as in the music by The Mamas & The Papas suggested by the title) is imprinted in the beautiful landscapes shot in Super8, which are in contrast with the narrator's feeling of anguish, regarding the present and the future, a time that is characterized by what no longer exists or what has ceased to be. In a touching and intimate portrait about memory, family and loss, the fallen leaves of All the Leaves Are Brown represent the end of a season and the beginning of another cycle: Daniel knows that, next year, the tree he sees from his window will once again be filled with leaves. He will have to learn to be another one. (Lídia Queirós, Curtas Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival)