Time Indefinite (1993)
1h 54m
Running Time
May 12, 1993Release Date
Time Indefinite (1993)
1h 54m
Running Time
May 12, 1993Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Subs
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Cast & Crew.
Steve Ascher
Self
Michael Blumenthal
Self
Robert Gardner
Self
Robert Gardner
Self
Charleen Swansea
Herself
Natalie Hawley
Self
Richard Leacock
Self
Ross McElwee
Director
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Details.
Wiki.
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.
The title comes from a passage from the Bible mentioned by a visiting Jehovah's Witness. McElwee is filming the interaction and focused on adjusting the exposure to try to catch the play of light over the man's face; distracted, he "hears" the phrase about 30 seconds after the man says it and understands it to refer to the unpredictable imminence of death.