Michael Tiemann

I saw this movie when it screened at the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham NC. I loved it, but it was challenging. It is a film that takes its time to tell you what it's really about. Which I appreciate. The film makes several implicit commitments that I was sure it was not going to fulfill--but it did. The main character, V, is so unique, it is as if she almost separates from the documentary about her. And the overall result is one that left me wondering: did I watch a documentary, or did I watch narrative-as-documentary? Nevertheless, and perhaps because of all of the above, I thought the film was a really worthy exploration of self, family, responsibility, abuse, reconciliation, and determination. I really enjoyed it, and have been recommending it to many when discussing the topic of story-telling in the AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality) space.