Time Indefinite (1993)
Love, family, and the search for better camera angles.
After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the sudden string of deaths, McElwee becomes depressed. After spending time with his friend and former high school poetry teacher, Charlene, he goes to meet his brother, a doctor. In a series of interviews, McElwee contemplates his morbid preoccupation with death and tries to figure out how to shake it off.
- Date of release
- 1993-05-12
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Ross McElwee
Casting
- Steve Ascher — Himself
- Michael Blumenthal — Himself
- Robert Gardner — Himself
- Natalie Hawley — Herself
- Ross McElwee — Himself
- Charleen Swansea — Herself
- Marilyn Levine — Herself
- Dede McElwee — Herself
- Adrian McElwee — Himself
- John McElwee — Himself
- Ross McElwee Jr. — Himself
Interesting facts
Time Indefinite is an autobiographical 1993 documentary film directed by Ross McElwee. It explores themes of grief, mortality, and the convenient disconnection of watching life through a camera lens.
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