When people wave hello to the person behind the camera in home movies they seem aware of waving hello to a future viewer. Yet, upon viewing, the very gesture (re)presents a recurring good-bye to a fleeting moment. This film is an homage to the man behind the camera in these personal 8mm family archives, my father, who left me this heritage beyond mortality in the traces of past lives. — Louise Bourque Review : “BYE BYE NOW is cruel. A movie traumatized by time, which is the passing of time and all that inhabits it. Movies play into that, their only purpose is to reduce the living to shocked witnesses of those drowning before their eyes. Children are unknowing, not seeing or suspecting the wave overtaking them. Movie stars at least know what they’re doing and demand money for dying before the “objective” camera (certainly aging as we watch from movie to movie). “Movie shots”, what an expression. It tells you that someone understood what mischief they were up to way back at the very beginning of cinema. Dear Louise, that’s my take on your immaculate work.” —Ken Jacobs
