Film Categories: Families

  • Spike

    Spikey has two mommies. A light-hearted look at the joys and anxieties of lesbian parenting.

  • That Thing We Do

    While visiting his family at the cottage, Kevin meets up with his younger cousin, sparking a sweet and inspiring connection.

  • Beso Nocturno

    Dark and energetic, “BESO NOCTURNO” (Night Kiss) involves a young man who witnesses the horrible death of his girlfriend. He then sells his sexual services to a dying old man, only to suffer a tragic fate.

  • My Mother at the Consulate

    “My Mother at the Consulate” is a montage-based exploration of absence and presence and the passage of time. It is an addition to a series of personal pieces about the filmmaker’s mother.

  • Closer to Heaven

    Using the weather as a metaphor for the stages of grief, “Closer to Heaven” is a good-bye poem and homage to my Dad. Shot on Super 8 and optically printed. “Who can really distinguish between the sea and what’s reflected in it, or tell the difference between falling rain and loneliness?” – Haruki Murakami

  • Hunter-Gatherer

    A traditional slide show disintegrates into fragmentary forms. Using re-photographic methods that mimic the mechanics of recollection, the artist’s family slide images are reframed, distorted and hand-processed. An attempt to grasp a personal memory surrounding the taking of the originals.

  • Family Portrait

    Through re-photography and the combination of narration and imagery, “Family Portrait” deconstructs a family photograph and its ability to conceal a past rather than reveal one.

  • Through Your Eyes

    “Through Your Eyes” tells the story of Maria, a young Latin-American woman whose parents disappeared under the Argentinian military dictatorship when she was a child. Risking it all to uncover the mystery of their disappearance, Maria delves into her memories and history – a history which struggles to stay alive in a society which attempts to silence it. In Spanish with English sub-titles.

  • Leche

    This film, hand processed and hung to dry on the clothesline, examines details of the life of one family, living on an isolated dairy ranch in Central Mexico. Uman’s “Mala Leche” (2003) is a companion piece. Spanish language with sub-titles.

  • Mala Leche

    This film follows members of the family presented in Uman’s earlier film “Leche” (1998). Now living in California’s agricultural Central Valley, they continue to work with dairy cattle but under very different circumstances.