Time Indefinite

Love, family, and the search for better camera angles.

After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the sudden string of deaths, McElwee becomes depressed. After spending time with his friend and former high school poetry teacher, Charlene, he goes to meet his brother, a doctor. In a series of interviews, McElwee contemplates his morbid preoccupation with death and tries to figure out how to shake it off.

• Release date
• May 12, 1993
• Runtime
• 114 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Ross McElwee

Cast

S

Steve Ascher Himself

M

Michael Blumenthal Himself Robert Gardner Himself

N

Natalie Hawley Herself Ross McElwee Himself Charleen Swansea Herself

M

Marilyn Levine Herself

D

Dede McElwee Herself