The great-grandmother on the tape is Ma Green — Selma, born in Győr, Hungary in 1894, though she claimed 1900. Her sisters performed at the Hippodrome as an underwater ballet team. In 1969 the Miami News photographed her at a senior-citizens' protest with the Metro Mayor. The film sets her televised interview against Super 8 reels my grandfather David shot in the 1960s.

The reels were recorded as projections on a living-room wall; the VHS was taped off a portable TV. Rotoscoped frames, scratches worked into the surface, digital collage, present-day footage. The film refuses chronology — 1967 bumps up against 2026.

Four generations share the frame: Ma Green speaking, David behind the camera, my mother as the child in the reels, me as the one animating what they left.