In These Pages (1970)

This short documentary sifts through the pages of a woman's diary who has recently begun to write her memoir. As she looks back at her life and some of her memories, the film explores the ordinary act of writing and the value and meaning it may hold in mundane everyday life. photographic evidence, nostalgia, memory, photograph, childhood home, storytelling, family photo, grandmother, nostalgic, old photograph, photos, women in film, women and society, women of color, womenhood, grandmother granddaughter relationship, childhood memory, women, journal writing, missing grandmother, nostalgic memory