200 hours of footage, dusty boxes of film, a broken editing computer: these were the pieces of filmmaker Richard P. Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2001, leaving behind a lifetime of filmed memories, until his student and protégé, Alexander Olch began making a movie out of the pieces.

After its nationwide art house run this summer The Windmill Movie airs on Wednesday 10/28 at 8pm EST on HBO.

Music by Michael Montes.

Here’s the trailer:

FOUR STARS – CRITICS’ PICK – “Mind bending” – Time Out

“A love letter to fading memory and the passage of time” – New York Magazine

“Both a near uncategorizable feat of documentary filmmaking and a gorgeously constructed emotional portrait of a man grappling with the deepest of artistic and personal issues.” – Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine.