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And, still, the birds sang on.
Over the course of one fateful Christmas night, a woman named Helena is virtually revisited by a key figure from her past, as old memories are provoked through an archive of elusive and cryptic video logs. In the process, emotions that have long been dormant rise to the surface.
In sound, a man recounts his on-foot migration across the United States of America. On screen, candid photographs & findings of terrains, settlements, and conditions from the present moment. Together, testimony and documentation construct a damning series of events from within domestic borders, but is it all to be believed?
"We're the Marvels" follows a young woman preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for a group of friends as a practice run before making actual Thanksgiving dinner for her family. As we see the prep, the dinner, and the aftermath, out of order, we start to see that she and her friends similarly struggle with feelings of over-reliance on others - a feeling that’s just waiting to burst.
