When I Was a Boy (1993)

Directed by

Todd Field

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Runtime

17 min

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A grown man looks back on how his mother raised him and how people treated him when he was a child. The film explores his memories and feelings about that time in his life.

reflectiveintrospectivecontemplativemelancholicslow-burnpersonalexperimentalquiet

What happens

When I Was a Boy is a 1993 short film directed by Todd Field, Alex Vlacos and Matthew Modine. It is an experimental piece about a grown man reflecting on how he was reared by his mother and treated by others as a child. The piece premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival in front of Victor Nuñez's Grand Jury Prize winning Ruby in Paradise in which Field stars and Vlacos was the cinematographer. That same year it was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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