306 Hollywood

306 HOLLYWOOD is a magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of the house of their late grandmother Annette. They embark on a journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.

The film unfolds in a cinematic language of documentary and fiction, with myth and fairy tale as inspiration. Using a technique called “normalized magic,” the filmmakers explore this world where the day-to-day collapses with the wondrous. The house, once familiar, transforms into a magical-realist landscape: the living room becomes a forest, the basement an archeological site, the house a scale model, and a train travels through the kitchen.

Ten years of interviews with Annette, ages 83-93, provide a remarkably honest and humorous reflection on life from an age rarely represented. Inspired by the work of Agnes Varda and Wes Anderson, Annette’s stories are woven together with stylized documentation of the house and its objects. 306 HOLLYWOOD transforms the dusty fragments of an unassuming life into an epic metaphor for the nature of memory, time, and history.