Sunday Short Theatre – H.A.G.S (Have A Good Summer)

I don’t know about you, many say school time was a wonderful time, rest of us we would rather forget. Sometimes it’s to do with the experience we went through at school others depending what era you were there, it could be the fashion. Here in the UK it’s not a tradition many of us do, in the U.S yearbooks are a common part of the end of your education. This week’s Sunday Short Theatre H.A.G.S (Have A Good Summer), asks you what would you discover if you revisited these yearbooks?

This near 9 minute  documentary short film comes from Sean Wang. He asks a burning question, when you signed that book when you where a teen, did you mean it? “Keep In Touch!”. This film is a nostalgic ride for Wang and reminiscing about the innocence of your school days. Do you cringe, even laugh or do you simply refuse to look back?

In this film Wang compiles the film using his own yearbook from 2008. He gives his friends from middle school a call to see how their doing in adulthood. There all approaching their 30’s which provoked the filmmaker to reflect on the affect of the age process. It’s an anxiety we all face and when he looks back he is now similar age to his parents when they met, making this film even more personal…

A portrait of growing up told through the pages of my middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.

The film also features Danial Awan, Way Chen, Fahad Manzur, Sohrab Nawim, Karina Paonessa, Terilyn Tran.

Source: The New York Times