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‘I look at the footage to convince myself that you were alive’: how Ross McElwee made a film about unimaginable loss, grief and guilt
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a culture story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 2 Oct 2026, 07:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘I look at the footage to convince myself that you were alive’: how Ross McElwee made a film about unimaginable loss, grief and guilt”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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When his son died aged 27, the director could barely bring himself to watch his old clips of the boy. When at last he did, it was the genesis of an extraordinary project Ross McElwee is the film-maker who spun home movies into art, framing himself and his friends and…
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