Iris Film Collective's Nisha Platzer is touring her feature documentary back home, with shows at Chicago Underground FF (Sept 15 & 17), Whammy! Analog in LA (Sept 18), Shapeshifters in Oakland (Sept 20) and Local Sightings FF Seattle (Sept 24), with more to come in October!
back home follows the filmmaker’s pursuit to get to know her older brother, Josh, twenty years after he took his own life. Over a five-year period, she connects with the friends who knew him best as a teenager. Her exchanges with Josh’s found family express the importance and transformative power of grieving in community.
Through intimate recollections re-imagined on 16mm and Super8 film, and lyrical, celluloid visuals hand-processed in plants, seaweed, soil and ashes, back home floats between memory and the present – a fragmented meditation on identity, loss, and healing.
