ALLOT (A LONG LIST OF THINGS)

of SANBORN John

UNITED STATES, 2014, 01:30:00

Genre : Creative documentary, Video art
Keyword : Memory, Portrait, Education

Summary :
High school is where life starts to get serious. You are becoming the person you were meant to be, and you dream about what you will do. Forty years later – almost a lifetime – what happened? Did things work out the way you imagined? Are you where you want to be? And after all that time – who are you? How are you doing in the performance of your life?

Filmmaker John Sanborn made discoveries by attending his 40th high school reunion with a film crew to interview former classmates, find answers to those questions, and gain a measure of closure. The result is a highly personal video memoir that blends interviews with contemplations and meditations on the unpredictable challenges and life-altering transformations fifteen graduates from Walt Whitman High School faced in the years before they all met again.

And to show us, ultimately, that life is a long list of things.

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