2020 · drama · documentary
Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
Directed by Frank Oz1h 30m2020
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
Our read: Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself (2020) reads as a warm, steady, inventive drama · documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / documentary, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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