February 7–9 | A pandemic rages around 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. 

Dialogue: Director Kyle Henry will attend all screenings. On February 7, Henry will be joined by Zahna Woodson (they/she), Regional Organizing Manager for Caring Across Generations. Additional guests to be announced. 

Awards & Nominations

Nominee - Gold Q-Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival 

The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu