Over 25 years, artist-filmmaker Marc Lafia has created a kaleidoscopic body of work blending narrative films, installations, and intimate family archives. In collaboration with writer-editor Kala Mandrake, Stream of Life unfolds as a poetic manifesto, dissolving the boundaries between art and life, fiction and reality. Described by filmmaker Alan Berliner as “a majestic and operatic film that transforms private archives into a universal meditation on time, love, and human vulnerability,” the film reflects on how recording shapes modern identity. Through inventive refrains and intimate encounters, Lafia captures the rhythms of relationships and the fluidity of memory. At its heart, Stream of Life is a love story—layered, complex, and deeply moving. It is a love story between Lafia and his wife, Irena; a love story about his family, in all their ebullient, moody, and brilliant sweetness; and a love story with cinema itself.