“… Beautiful, cathartic and utterly unforgettable…like walking through a vivid, emotional tapestry.”
—Loud and Clear

“A richly constructed scrapbook… puts a spotlight on how families grapple with dementia and care … opens the door for connections with other families”
—Hyperreal Film Club

Filmmaker Kyle Henry joins for a post-film discussion after each screening.

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.