Me and My Parents My Parents and I

In 1975 his graduation year at the Film Academy director Gerrit van Elst captured his relationship with his father and mother and how they opposed their only childs decision to go and study in faraway Amsterdam Twentynine years later he and his camera crew are back at his now seriously infirm parents For this film Van Elst crossedited the footage of then and now A revealing observation of growing old and approaching death