I’ve been here before.

There was You Should Get Out More, a short that followed a pair of feet throughout their day of caregiving, which festival premiered back in 2021.

And there was the decade spent returning the care my grandparents once offered me.

I’ve written about aging, but only as a witness, and care, but only as me, knowing I’m not a monolith. (You can read about that here, too, published in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity.)

I’m back again, following the lives of the anonymous many in every other living room. With the grant support of The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, the team and I are spending a long weekend, looking for the kind of care that can only be found in chopping an eggplant (despite the arthritis), opening that broken screen door to catch a breeze, massaging a shoulder (not just because of the arthritis.)

A film of, by, and for caregivers. Of and for their grandparents, parents, partners, old high school chemistry teachers and everyone else in growing need who’re met not by their country or a PPO, but by the folks who’ll give up an afternoon (and more) for the people who need it.

So, thanks for spending some of that time with us.

-Joanna

writer, director, editor, producer, caregiver