In “Flesh and Blood,” he surveys a community where Honkala has had to get ordained as a minister just so she could help bury all the bodies piling up because of poverty and gang violence, bringing out the daily acts of decency that push back against a feeling of hopelessness in dire circumstances. Though Webber would seem to run the risk of having his work called vanity projects, they couldn’t be any further from that description, his decision to turn the camera on himself usually an act of considerable generosity as he opens himself up in order to show situations and environments that don’t often get the big screen treatment. the World.” But regardless of the background, his time away results in a shock to the system upon coming back, arriving just as his mother Cheri Honkala, a longtime community activist, decides to join the Green Party presidential ticket (which actually did last fall), and his brother Guillermo, a sweet fifth grader with a yen for philosophy, is getting bullied at school. “Flesh and Blood” is no exception, seeing Webber’s return to North Philadelphia where he grew up homeless and raises the stakes by suggesting he’s been in prison for years when in reality, he’s been busy of late with a successful acting career in such films as “Green Room” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. With films such as “Explicit Ills,” “The End of Love,” and “The Ever After,” he’s remixed his recent past with actors using their real names interacting with non-actors from his real life, reinterpreting experiences he’s had with dramatic flourishes.
Intentional or not, the line has an extra sting coming from Webber, an actor/director for whom the term ‘cut’ has never been a part of his vocabulary when it comes to the separation between his personal life and the films he’s made professionally. “What do you mean, ‘cut’?” Mark Webber can be seen asking his younger brother Guillermo in a scene from “Flesh and Blood,” waking up to being filmed with a camera that he picked up with the aim of giving his insatiably curious kid sibling with Asperger’s something to focus on.
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