
Fish Story
Caspar Salmon sets out to verify a strange piece of family lore: that sometime in the 1980s his grandmother, Pauline Salmon, was invited to a gathering celebrating the inauguration of a monument or institution whose exact nature has become fuzzy with retelling. The film follows him as he tries to pin down what actually happened, working from fragments of memory, family testimony, and whatever documentation he can track down decades later. Part of the Born and Raised series, it uses one family's half-remembered anecdote to ask a broader question about how personal history gets distorted, embellished, or lost across generations. Salmon narrates his own search, turning a small domestic mystery into a short study of memory and inheritance. The film stays close to its single thread rather than expanding into wider history, and its pleasure is in watching an ordinary claim get pulled apart piece by piece to see what, if anything, is left standing.