How Do You Measure A Year?

An active legend in essay films, Jay Rosenblatt has spent 40 years dealing with issues such as the shaping of personality and character at an early age. How Do You Measure a Year? can be seen as a culmination of that entire journey, adopting a formula as simple as it is intimate in this regard. When Ella, the filmmaker’s daughter, turned two, father and daughter embarked on a yearly birthday ritual consisting of a series of set questions: he did the filming and asked the questions, while she replied to the camera. Filmed over 17 years, the result of this moving work reveals Jay’s love, but also the force of a master’s hand in putting together fragments of time. (SdB)

Spanish Premiere