Everything

The inner monologue of a man talking in very existentialist, philosophical terms about fatherhood, parenting, childhood, and his partner is the fictional background to real life taking place in an assemblage of home footage. Composed of the filmmaker's own home-video, the film explores the ‘objective,’ near-scientific position from which the fictional father narrates the harrowing events that lead to the disintegration of his family life. In the film, the family unit is de-centred through the depiction of multiple families whilst telling one couple's story. This forms a haunting gesture towards what might be called a universal ‘family condition’. The appropriation of the real onto a fictional canvas raises further questions about ethics and the objectification of the real.