#  Ross McElwee’s Remake 

 





October 07, 2026

 

 

Ross McElwee’s *Remake*

**Sunday, October 18, 2026, 6:30 PM**  
**Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Theater**  
**Free and open to the public**

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies presents a screening of **Ross McElwee’s** ***Remake*** **(2025, 116 min.)**.

For nearly forty years, McElwee has made closely observed and profoundly subjective documentaries exploring the intersection of his personal life with the world at large. In *Remake*, the death of his son leads him to reassess his approach to filmmaking and to his own life’s work.

### About Ross McElwee

Ross McElwee is a documentary filmmaker from Charlotte, North Carolina, currently living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has made ten feature-length films, including *Sherman’s March*, which won Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected for preservation in the U.S. Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2000.

His films have premiered at major international festivals, including Cannes and Venice, and retrospectives of his work have been presented around the world. In 2005, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a complete retrospective of his films, and in 2019, a complete retrospective was held at Centre Pompidou in Paris.

McElwee has received fellowships and support from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and LEF Foundation. He received the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival’s Career Award in 2007 and the Pennebaker Award for his career in 2023.

McElwee served as **Professor of the Practice of Filmmaking in Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies from 2003 until his retirement in 2024**. He is now **Research Professor, Emeritus in AFVS**.

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