All Water Has a Perfect Memory

All Water Has a Perfect Memory

Natalia Almada

MX / US
2001
Documentary
19’
Specials

At seven months old, filmmaker Natalia Almada lost her two-year-old sister, Ana Lynn, in a drowning accident at her childhood home in Mexico. Inspired by an essay written by Toni Morrison, in which she speaks of the Mississippi River’s ability to conjure memories, this moving piece serves as a meditation on the cultural and gender differences between the film-maker’s North American mother and Mexican father in the face of their daughter’s death. Through personal recollections Almada weaves together a touching and moving visual memory of Ana Lynn.


Awards for ›All Water Has a Perfect Memory‹
Beste kurze Dokumentation, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City 2002

Director / Script / Cinematography / Editing

Natalia Almada

Production

Altamura Films

Contact

Women Make Movies

WWW

wmm.com

Natalia Almada

Natalia Armada was born in Mexico. Her works have received international recognition. She is Guggenheim fellow and has received support from Creative Capital, the Sundance Institute and the MacDowell Colony, to name but a few. She has also won several awards for Al Otro Lado (»The Other Side«) a documentary film about immigration and drug trafficking. She shares her time between Mexico and Brooklyn.


Films by Natalia Almada
El Velador 2011 | P.O.V. 2010 | El General 2009 | The 8 2009 | Al Otro Lado 2005