Docs Ireland: Remake

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BBFC RatingDocs Ireland: Remake

CertificateNot Rated
Year2025
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Ross McElwee
LanguageEnglish
CountryUSA
Running Time1HR 54MINS
Season Docs Ireland 2026

Observational cinema legend Ross McElwee explores time and memory through footage of his son Adrian, weaving their shared filmmaking past with an unfinished Hollywood remake of his renowned documentary Sherman’s March.

Questioning himself and his entire filmmaking career throughout, McElwee creates an incredibly meaningful meditation on loss and documentation.

McElwee developed his own style of memoir cinema informed by direct cinema - elevating the mundane texture of daily life to a large artistic canvas, uniquely creating a true observational film from within the confines of his own archive. 

“His films document the present, but they also preserve the past in amber and point towards an uncertain future. Remake, like all of McElwee’s personal cinema, embodies the passage of time itself. In other words, it’s the stuff of life.”- IndieWire

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