Chicago Underground Film Festival and Filmmakers Summit 2008

‘The Eye You Lost In the Crusades’ is a super 8mm film set to the music of Califone. It is a story of loss and regret with final impressions of a redemptive grace. A father attempts to reconcile the sudden loss of his children, but the devastated corners of his mind only provide memories rendered as snapshots and flickering film. In search of a more pure recollection, he wrestles with his anguish. The grainy, ethereal landscapes are depicted in the hues and textures of an inner turmoil. As the film comes to its close, deliverance is within reach. Our father kneels before a green sea, a baby is born, a woman waves and the last frames blink before dying.