Time Passages - a film screening

In collaboration with the Ashland Independent Film Festival, the Oregon Center for the Arts is pleased to present a special film screening of "Time Passages" on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at the SOU Music Recital Hall at 450 S. Mountain Avenue in Ashland. Film begins at 6pm and runs 86 minutes, followed by a Q&A with gay filmmaker Kyle Henry following the film.

Tickets: https://sou.universitytickets.com General admission $12, seniors $8, OLLI, SOU Alumni, and Oregon Trail Card Holders $5. Free (but you need a ticket) for SOU faculty, staff, and students. AIFF Members, use promo code: AIFFTIMEPASS25 to get a $2.00 discount. Parking is free in Lot #36 across from the SOU Music Building. “...an ode to the desire to know ourselves by truly knowing those we love, it’s a beautifully sincere film" - Cine-File “… a sincere and often funny and playful journey about making meaning from our family stories.” - Austin Film Society "... a film that celebrates life in its multifaceted complexity.” - RogerEbert.com “… puts a spotlight on how families grapple with dementia and care … opens the door for connections with other families.” - Hyper-Real Film Club Watch the trailer and learn more here: https://www.timepassagesfilm.com/

ABOUT THE FILM: A pandemic rages across the globe. In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, gay filmmaker Kyle Henry uses his extensive family archive to travel back in time, exploring the complicated bonds of identity, history, and belonging in his large Texas family. Charting Elaine’s promising early life through her years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, finally tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, Time Passages playfully explores Kyle’s conflicting feelings of love, grief, guilt, and helplessness. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies lie the difficult truths that so many families hide. With their unearthing, Time Passages becomes a memento mori: a testament to love, legacy and the things that carry us through life’s most challenging times.A pandemic rages across the globe. In the final months of his mother Elaine’s late-stage dementia, gay filmmaker Kyle Henry uses his extensive family archive to travel back in time, exploring the complicated bonds of identity, history, and belonging in his large Texas family. Charting Elaine’s promising early life through her years of motherhood and self-sacrifice, finally tracing their relationship to its inevitable end, Time Passages playfully explores Kyle’s conflicting feelings of love, grief, guilt, and helplessness. Beneath the Kodachrome smiles and grainy Super-8 home movies lie the difficult truths that so many families hide. With their unearthing, Time Passages becomes a memento mori: a testament to love, legacy and the things that carry us through life’s most challenging times. ABOUT THE FILMMAKER/WRITER/DIRECTOR: For 30 years, Kyle has traversed film forms to bring authentic stories of interrelationship to audiences at fests, theaters, and streaming platforms. His fictions use documentary methods to devise stories based on research, creating deeper authenticity. His documentaries use fictional techniques to portray interior worlds of subjective memory and thought. From his SXSW premiered documentaries University Inc.'s exploration of toxic higher-ed corporatization and American Cowboy’s sensitive stereotype toppling portrayal of a gay rodeo champ; to Sundance and Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight premiered fiction feature Room’s psychic journey of a working class woman in post-9/11 America, Fourplay's vivid investigation of sexual intimacy, to Chicago set Rogers Park's “eye for the intimate, dividend-paying gesture” (NYTimes) that is “brimming with universal truths” (Chicago Sun-Times), his deep mining of human experience has the purposeful goal of facilitating community discussion, as he tours with all of his works to converse directly with audiences in a variety of settings. Time Passages is his re-emergence as a documentarian after 20 years making fiction films.