"All Water Has A Perfect Memory" is a poignant experimental documentary that explores the effects of loss and remembrance experienced in a family's life. When only seven months old, filmmaker Natalia Almada lost her two year-old sister, Ana Lynn, in a tragic drowning accident at her home in Mexico. Through personal recollections narrated by her brother, mother and father, Almada weaves together the moving story about her sisters death and the impact it's had on her family. Using Super-8 home movies, photographs and fabricated images, she creates a touching and moving visual memory of Ana Lynn.
"All Water Has A Perfect Memory" is both narrated and subtitled in Spanish and English to create a bilingual and bicultural experience. It explores the cultural and gender differences between the filmmaker's North American mother and Mexican father in the face of their daughters death. Ana Lynn drowned in the pool of our house in Mexico. I remember the pool was always being drained and refilled as if they were trying to erase its history. Water not only has the ability to remember, but it also has the ability to entirely forget. It is this duality that reminds us that between remembering and forgetting there is but a slight difference.
Natalia Almada was born in Mexico to a North American mother and a Mexican father. She has spent her life between Mexico and the United States. She recently completed her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and has completed two short documentaries, "Put on Your diamond Shoes" and "All Water has a Perfect Memory".
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