The island man
Documentary / 20΄/ 2018
Synopsis: Even though he has been dead for over a decade, buried on the Greek island he left behind as a teenager, John remains a painful mystery to his former wife, children, and grandson. Upon rediscovering his home movies, they begin to reconcile the troubled man they knew with the person he might have been. A film about memory, loss, and being caught between two homes.
Alex Morelli
He is a documentary artist and educator based in Durham, North Carolina. Drawing on observational and experimental practices, he makes first-person films that explore intergenerational memory, marginal characters, and the relationship between place and identity. He has taught film and video making at Harvard and Duke and frequently works as a freelance cinematographer and editor. A recipient of grants from the LEF and Puffin foundations as well as the Film Study Center at Harvard, he was selected in 2019 as a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke.