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A Song For My Father

Lessons in forgetting, lessons in remembering, to listen.

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A Song For My Father is a six-minute poetic documentary that examines grief and the complicated relationship we develop with the things that once connected us to the people we’ve lost. After the sudden death of their musician father, filmmaker Shona Buschlen and her younger brother Eddie, a jazz trumpet player, return to a performance space where their father once played. In the early stages of grief, music becomes difficult to hear, no longer comforting but a reminder of absence. Over time, these feelings begin to shift. Through archival recordings of their father’s bass and live trumpet improvisations by Eddie, the film creates a call and answer across time, tracing how sound becomes a way to sit with grief rather than escape it. Blending voiceover, childhood footage, and sound-driven editing, A Song For My Father explores grief not as something to be resolved, but as something lived with, where healing comes from allowing yourself to feel.

Directed byShona Buschlen

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 6m
Language
EN
Budget
$200

Featuring

Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring

Eddie Buschlen

Shona Buschlen

Shona Buschlen

Creative team
Directed by
Shona Buschlen
Shona Buschlen
Written by
Shona Buschlen
Shona Buschlen

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