Heavy Load
Screened Thursday, October 16, 2008
Synopsis
A beautifully paced, touching film about the filmmaker’s uncle. In 1995, George Ingmire was rummaging through a tangle of film spools he inherited after his grandfather’s death when an audio tape caught his attention. On it, his grandfather’s voice was telling a story, describing his son, Dwight Core Jr., Ingmire’s uncle.
Also in the box Ingmire found footage of a boy with a buzz haircut that seemed to go with his grandfather’s audio tape. Then images of four other children: the boy’s sisters, one of them Ingmire’s mother. He began piecing the film and the words together. In December 2006, decades after filmmaker Dwight Core, Sr. shot the first frame, this film about his son won a special honor, becoming one of only a handful of films accepted into the Library of Congress
