"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.