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Filmmaker Morgan Dews
was very close to his grandmother
Allis, but it wasnt until
after her death in 2001 that he
became aware of an astounding
archive shed amassed throughout
the 1960s. Filled with startlingly
intimate and candid audio
recordings detailing her familys
increasingly turbulent lives, the
collection also contained hundreds
of silent home movies,
photographs and written journals.
Using only these found
materials, Dews has fashioned a
searing family portrait that affords
fly-on-the-wall access to
one familys struggles amid an
America on the verge of dramatic
transformation.
Must Read After My
Death follows Allis, her husband
Charley and their four children
in Hartford, Connecticut. Charleys
work takes him to Australia
four months each year, so the
couple purchases Dictaphone recorders
as a way to stay in touch
throughout Charlies extended
absences. A modern woman at
least a decade ahead of her time,
Allis struggles against conformity
against the conventional roles
of wife and mother. She finds the
recordings cathartic and, with
the familys cooperation, incorporates
them into their everyday
existence. When the family turns
to psychologists and psychiatrists,
their strife increases and
the recordings turn progressively
darker even desperate. All the
while, Dews employs the familys
many home movies and the
seemingly placid, typically American
façade that they convey, as
visual counterpoint to the raw
and sobering tape recordings.

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