A Farewell to Pain

The filmmaker’s son was killed in an accident. He was working on a flip book that his father finishes. The proximity of happiness and loss in the most succinct form.

Maimed, (ill-)defined fragments of images. Prayer-like musical sounds. Broken letters. A vision of the self – or a self-restoration from the debris of memory.

Observing documentary about the attempt to use art to come to terms with past trauma – or at least not to pass it on. A theatre workshop is supposed to help.

A young woman re-reads the letters her father wrote her from prison fifteen years ago. The relationship between father and daughter as a fragmentary animation.