Excellent stuff. This is a tribute to the filmmaker’s wife and collaborator. Hurwitz focuses mostly on their cinematic output together than their personal life, thus he uses plenty of footage from the documentaries they made together. Also he shows no footage of her but only uses photographs, especially one in which she’s holding a poster that says “Shoot film, not people”. He uses it as a launching point of the film’s (leftist) political explorations. I don’t want to make unfair comparisons but some of the ideas and themes I got from this reminded me a bit of Marker, especially Grin Without a Cat, except here Hurwitz scans photographs instead of stock footage. It also seems to be infused with some of the avant garde poetic tradition. Hurwitz was one of the founding figures of American documentary filmmaking and pioneered cinema verite way before the canonized verite guys like Leacock, Pennebaker, Drew etc. He lacks Marker’s essayist panache and lyricism but his voiceovers are pretty poetic and sort of recall the tone of 1930’s American documentaries. One of the thing that intrigued me was the use of two narrators, one by Hurwitz and the other by another woman, both of which uses the first person. While Hurwitz’s narration clearly represents his own voice, the other woman’s narration seems to represent that of his wife, though I’m not sure if it is.