This work is composed of images of my son, Daniel, recorded over a period of four years. The impulse to film him began right after his birth. Absolutely captivated by his presence, I could not help but film. Sort of "snapshots" with a movie camera, very much in the tradition of early cinema as well as home movies, footage that I initially thought was just going to be for Myrel, Daniel, and me to look at when we were older. Time passed. The rolls kept accumulating. Eventually I had some of them developed. I very much liked what I saw and that in turn prompted me to continue filming as well as to attempt to find a way, a form, of possibly making public these very private photo-memory fragments of Daniel's life....Except for a couple of shots, all material is straightforward, chronological.-Ernie GehrDescribed as "a filmmaker's filmmaker" by Village Voice critic J. Hoberman, Ernie Gehr has been making films since 1968 and received the Maya Deren Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1990. He teaches at San Francisco Art Institute and in the Film Program at UC Berkeley.