87 Topaz
By Miguel Coyula • Oct 31st, 2004 • Category: Documentary, ExperimentalIn 87 Topaz, writer and director Bill Kersey finds his late grandfather’s diary and dramatizes his nostalgia through the use of photographs, home movies, narration, and music. The editing is solid, the music adequate, and the visuals are often quite interesting. However, I think it might be too abstract in order to be appreciated by a wider audience, since we never get to find out much about the characters aside from the grandfather’s love of cars and scarce glimpses of the relationship with his grandson. But in the end this movie is an excuse to create a mood of nostalgia for a lost relative, which is well accomplished. The short is sincere, well paced, and overall very professionally made.
Three stars.
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Miguel Coyula is the director of the $2,000 sci-fi epic Red Cockroaches. His next project is Memorias del Desarrollo, a follow-up to the Cuban classic Memorias del Subdesarrollo (1968), based on the novel by Cuban writer Edmundo Desnoes
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