“A magical portrait of Hemingway by studying the world around him-following multiple Hemingway impersonators leading up to a look-alike contest, and examining a photographer who is part of the running of the bulls every year in Pamplona, which Hemingway helped make very famous. Oksman makes such great choices in how to tell the story. We see portraits of all the fake Hemingways with heavy narration, forcing us to consider what happens to a legendary person when a persona they created lives on far past them. As we learn the photographer’s story, we see that someone completely unknown but in the right place and time can be incredibly talented creating beautiful art as well.” – Mike Plante, Sundance Short Film Programmer
Each summer, a crowd of Ernest Hemingway doubles meet in Florida to choose his best impersonator. There was a day in 1924 when the real Hemingway also wanted to be someone else. Notes on the Other is the story of this hypothesis.
