PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Sorting through a house full of inherited objects, a filmmaker confronts memory, grief, and the painful process of deciding what to keep, what to let go, and how to move on.
Now submitting to festivals.
TYLER'S NOTES:
Renderfamily began with a small piece of footage I shot of my grandmother in 2015, just a few weeks before she passed away. I kept coming back to it over the years, knowing it meant something to me but not yet knowing what shape it needed to take. After my uncle died, and later as my family began the long process of sorting through my grandmother’s belongings, the project deepened into something more personal and more complicated. I process emotions by making things, and this film became my way of wrapping my own thoughts around that footage and the memories attached to it.
Over the next few years, I worked on the film between freelance jobs, scanning family photos and 8mm reels, building 3D models of my childhood home, and figuring out how to translate all of these fragments into animation. At one point I moved my studio setup into the house itself, splitting my time between animating, sorting through boxes, and helping fix the place up. The film and the house merged for me. Renderfamily became a way of thinking through grief, home, and the strange task of meeting the past again through images, objects, and memory.
Much love to my family for trusting me with our archives, tolerating my strange requests, and being (mostly) fine with me putting our images in the public eye.
