Intimidad

Intimidad is an original Mexican love story about family relationships and the meaning of “home.” Cecy and Camilo – ages 21 – recently moved to the border, Reynosa, Mexico, from Santa Maria, Puebla with a dream to save money, buy land, and build a home. A year later they return to their rural hometown to reunite with their two year-old daughter Loida. What seems like a satisfying reunion turns into a confusing dilemma that transforms the course of their marriage. Both the family in the film – and the directors – documented Intimidad over the course of 5 years, lending the story to an incredibly intimate, dream-like impression. Intimidad mixes digital verite with Super 8 and 16mm film stock.

Awards

• Ron Tibbet Award for Excellence in Film: Magnolia Film Festival
• Human Rights Award: River Run Film Festival
• Best International Film: Connecticut Film Festival
• Best Documentary Award: Sidewalk Film Festival
• Best Documentary Award: San Francisco International Latino Film Festival
• Best Documentary and Best of the VideoFest: VideoFest
• Part of “The Contenders” Series at MOMA

Reviews

• “Romance is where Intimidad soars, turning it into a documentary fairytale of truly humbling proportions.” Michael Tully, Indiewire/Hammer to Nail
• “Intimidad's final scenes satisfy, showing how even small victories can be savored. Mix of video and 16mm is artfully balanced.” Joe Leydon, Variety
• “Redmon and Sabin follow the family for more than four years as they struggle to buy land and build a house....” Austin Chronicle

Filmmaking duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin together produce, direct, photograph and edit critically acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide at Telluride, Sundance, Toronto, Cinema du Reel, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, RIDM, MoMA, Telluride, and Viennale Film Festivals and on PBS, POV, BBC, CBC, DR, ARTE, and NHK.

Their body of work includes Kim’s Video whereby they play with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres as co-director David Redmon sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily. Four “animal ethnography” films based in the world of donkeys and funded by the Leverhulme Trust: Sanctuary (2017), Do Donkeys Act?(2017), Choreography (2014), and Herd (2015); two dream/memory cinema poems Sentient 1 & 2 (2015/2016); a 6 minute snowbound ballet mécanique, Neige (2016); a suite of U.S. post-industrialization themed films set inside three interconnected factories on the coast of Prospect Harbor, Maine: Downeast (2012), Night Labor (2013), and Kingdom of Animal(2012); a feature documentary about the labyrinthine world of teenage modeling in which a New York based scout recruits Siberian teenagers to the Tokyo model market Girl Model (2011); a film linking China and New Orleans through globalized manufacturing of cheap throwaway goods for American leisure pursuit, Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005) and two “carnivalesque” character driven films set in Louisiana Kamp Katrina (2007) and Invisible Girlfriend (2009). Lastly, set on the U.S. Mexico border, a longitudinal love story about family relationships and the meaning of “home” Intimidad (2008), which has been described as “a documentary fairytale of truly humbling proportions.”