- Ithaka, a poem by Constantine Cavafy, serves as a narrative to complement found footage from different ages and stages in my mother's journey through her life. I've created a film that expresses the essence of who she was as a person on this journey. In the film, images of her in her youth as well as in later years as a healthy and active woman contrast to her later life in a nursing home. The film images span her lifetime and expose the essence of her human spirit - a spirit constant and immune to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. 'A Marvelous Journey' explores the nature of her soul.—Jeanne F Goodman
- "A Marvelous Journey" is a short experimental film. "A Marvelous Journey" is a film that explores a lifetime. The filmmaker took found footage of her mother beginning in the 1940's and used them to create a "collage" of film images spanning her lifetime The film juxtaposes older 8mm film images with current digital video footage of the same person at the end of her life in 2008. Those images are juxtaposed to photos, movies and videos taken throughout an 80 year time span. The poem, Ithaka, by Constantine Cavafy serves as a narration.The music serves to reflect both the ideas of the poem and the historical eras of the footage. The end result exposes the nature of a soul, a spirit that transends time and aging.
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