SunDowning

 

Documentary Feature Film by Malachi Parsons
 

Project Stage: Pre-Production

After his grandfather, George, is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and aphasia, filmmaker Malachi Parsons returns to his family’s New Mexico home to capture the fragments of George’s identity before they vanish. Blurring the lines between them through poetic reenactments, Malachi, joined by the woman in his family, embodies George’s mind and endangered cultural identity using the ring shout, a performance tradition of resistance. What emerges is an unfinished self-elegy that invites audiences to reimagine legacy beyond the reach of language and memory.