The 53rd Hour – a short film for single dads everywhere.
“Waving goodbye to your kids is something most parents do without thinking. Follow this single Dad’s journey as he documents 8 months of saying goodbye to his two children, by capturing the missing moments between. Honest, heartfelt and true, this short was captured entirely on an iPhone.”
Directed by Jason van Genderen
2012 Telstra Mobile Masterpieces Winner
TSI “Light Bulb”
Big thanks to Carla Smith for sharing this lovely film with us.
Watching this, my heart breaks at the ache I caused my own single dad. I’m too young to have kids, but now I recognize what he felt… It’s awful.
It has been my experience that the biggest advocates for fathers, aren’t other fathers or even other men but in fact are ‘second’ wives and girlfriends. They see the fallout from the things that are being done to their new beaus.
I had one female friend of mine that after she got married to her new husband actually went to court and demanded her ex-husband receive 50/50 custody because she realized that everything that her new husbands EX was doing to him, She herself was doing to her ex husband. It was a real eye-opener for her.
this pic is not just for dads that have not mooved on my exwife left 11april 2011 i crashed hit absolute rock bottom at the time she left my mental health and phisical health was declining after she left i endured councilling learning how to cope eveentualy i learnt i moved on in life picked myself up from the ashes and made an effort and i succeeded i now have a beutifulle feonsea who stands by me gives me that shoulder to lean on in the tuff times but there is always one thing that can never be fixed or… Read more »
@john hall: Not 100% sure I understand your point here. But , it appears you are saying that there are bad dads out there. If this is what you are saying then you are 100% correct. BUT (and it is a HUGE But) be very carefull in judging the men that you refer to as ‘bad dads’ when it appears that you are getting the information from the moms. There is an old saying that comes to mind “Believe NONE of what you hear and only HALF of what you see”. It is very dangerous to start to assume that… Read more »
F’ing painful to watch.
Is there anything more traumatic then taking a person’s kids away?
typhon, I agree completely about how hard that was to watch. I’m a single dad myself, (though of a different sort… I’m a widower.), and as much as I hate dropping my son off at day care the idea of having to wait two weeks between seeing him would kill me. However, the reality is that not all of us are good dads who care. As a single dad who is the primary career, I’ve gotten to know a surprising number of single moms and just moms in general. It’s given me a window into the ‘other side’ in many… Read more »
“I’m not saying that those ‘bad dads’ are the norm.”
And what made them ‘bad dads’?