Details

Description: Filming five friends intimately for nearly 50 years, director Robb Moss invites us to reflect on what it means to inhabit a life fully, in its contradictions and continuities. He began filming Barry, Danny, Cathy, Jeff, and Jim in 1978, during one clothing-optional rafting trip through the Grand Canyon resulting in his short documentary, Riverdogs (1982). He resumed shooting as they came to terms with adulthood for his follow-up, The Same Rive Twice (2003). The final installment of a trilogy about Moss’ free-spirited friends navigating their way through life, The Bend in the River weaves new footage of the group–now in their 70s–with images of their younger selves. As past and present fold into one another, these five sense the fragility of their lives, how memory reshapes experience, and how meaning is made and remade.