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Family Portrait

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USA · 2023 · DCP 4K · Color · 78' · o.v. English

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Set at the start of Covid, Family Portrait follows a family on an idle but hectic morning when they have planned a group picture. When the mother vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her and gather her sprawling family, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition.
Family photographs, according to Roland Barthes, are a desperate means to freeze time and immortalize the family. However, what the family doesn’t realize yet is that, as they smile and pose for the picture, they have already died.

Information

Director

Lucy Kerr

Screenplay

Lucy Kerr

Cast

Deragh Campbell, Chris Galust, Rachel Alig, Katie Folger, Robert Salas

Producer

Megan Pickrell, Frederic Winkler

Co-producer

Rob Rice

Executive producer

Lucy Kerr, Brittany Reeber

Production design

Tim Nicholas

Production manager

Sarah Wilson

Cinematography

Lidia Nikonova

Editing

Karlis Bergs

Sound design

Nikolay Antonov, Andrew Siedenburg

Sound editing

Nikolay Antonov, Andrew Siedenburg

Sound mixing

Andrew Siedenburg, Nikolay Antonov

Art director

Tim Nicholas

Set design

Tim Nicholas

Costume design

Dev England

Hair/Make-up

Heather Michaels

Post-production

Tonburo

Special effects

XANF

Casting

Lucy Kerr

Production

Insufficient Funds, NSF
info@insufficientfunds.nyc

Conjuring Productions
lucykerr@alum.calarts.edu

International sales

Lights On
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lightson@lightsonfilm.org

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