My father abandoned my family when I was three days old. There were no visits, no summer vacations, no holidays, my father simply disappeared from our lives. The only relationship I had with my father growing up were the Super-8 films he left behind of his military service during the Vietnam War. The films were artifacts of my father's past, clues into a man who was a stranger to me.

"Lullaby To My father" utilizes documentary footage to examine the mystery of my father’s absence using lacerating soundscapes and video collage to tell a complex portrait of absence and loss, where memory splinters and mythology forms. It is thus a film for a missing father who left behind fragments of his past for his son to discover, one bound by dreams and unified at the center by the paradox of absence.

Michael LaRocco

Michael LaRocco