Join us for the next installment of Filmmaker Spotlight, a series designed to spotlight the work of local/regional filmmakers. Screening followed by dialogue with director and University of Iowa Cinematic Arts Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Mike Gibisser.

After an accident no one could have expected, Maureen (Gretchen Akers) must return to her hometown so that her partner, Ted (Alex Stein), can receive medical care under the supervision of his family. Meanwhile, a long-term illness forces Maureen and her father, Peter (Bryan Saner), into mirrored positions of caretaker, watching over an unconscious spouse in differing degrees of comfort and confidence.

Once home, Maureen and her sister, Louise (Rebecca Spence), reorient themselves to the new routines and the challenges of holding bedside vigil amid a cluster of beeping machines, trapped in that purgeatory particular to hospital visitors. With his daughters home, Peter makes the decision to remove Daniel (David Givler), his partner suffering a long-term illness, from the ventilator which supports his breath, hastening his eventual passing.

World of Facts explores the inherent tension between hyper-intimacy and minimalist observation, and manufactures through formal means the experience of its characters. The film explores both the vulnerability and strength of a family's most profound, yet most common, experience.

Borrowing its name from a passage in Paul Auster's memoir about his father's death - "I have entered the world of facts, the realm of brute particulars" - the film focuses its attention on the closely observed details of the everyday, which pervade the time-out-of-time experience of modern mourning and of grieving for things yet to come.