A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of my Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she recalls key memories of childhood—her father's windmill, warm rains, wolf sightings, bone trading, and her passion for carpentry, which broke gender norms but was supported by her father.

With textured childlike sketches reminiscent of shadows or cave paintings in motion, I try in "Mary Remembering" to evoke traces of memory from a past that I never experienced, acknowledging layers of distance in the artifice of the reconstruction, yet also summoning a discovered sense of closeness to experiences over a century old. Using animation as a medium with its roots in the act of "bringing-alive," the film serves as an admiring tribute that merely scratches the surface of who my ancestor was, occupying the curious terrain between binaries such as past and present, absence and presence, self and other, and life and death.