What Remains Human

When the ashes of her long-estranged father show up in the mail, Rebecca enlists the help of her siblings to find a suitable dumpsite for his sooty cremains. This black comedy, shot in the dead of winter in Saskatchewan, is an unusual look at the loss of rites of passages in our secular culture. The film’s quiet metaphor – how parental behavior leaves its smudgy mark on us all despite our most frantic efforts to rid ourselves of the legacy – creates a purposeful and layered theme not typically found in comedic films “What Remains Human is a queer absurdist depiction of four siblings who must dispose of their abusive father’s ashes. Various slapstick mishaps fail to overshadow the darker theme of this inventive short.” -Jim Norrena, Frameline International Film Festival, San Francisco