Film Journal: The Moon and Back
Directed by Leah Bleich
Lots of wonderful and endearing dynamics at work here. It’s funny, sad quirky, charming, real, adventurous, relatable.
Setting it in an era where home movies were a thing and anyone could be a director by picking up that camcorder and getting creative without the aid of smartphone culture and technology helps to personalize the journey. Art meets life as part of a mutually engaged process, using the plot device of an unpublished script left behind by a dead father as a window into reflections on the power of memory to bring the past to life. Loved how they used it as a means of communication between father and daughter across the divide.
It definitely has that low key, no frills indie vibe, but as a debut it’s the creative vision that really shines.
The Stories of my Life 