At its root, to document something is simply to record it. But every act of recording involves a series of choices about what information is captured, how it is framed, what is shared and what is omitted, and perhaps most importantly, what kind of truth it is meant to carry. The works in Root to Roam might each be understood as a form of subjective documentary, whether or not they wear that label. What filmmakers Christian Shepherd, Taj Rauch, Andy Price, Marissa Losoya, Brandon Aquino Straus, and David Scott Kessler share is less a genre than a method: a commitment to recording what is difficult to quantify, and to finding the form that best holds the particular truth they are after. Once an observation, a memory, or a history lodges itself in the psyche, it has a way of spreading outward until every surface reflects it back. These films follow that branching logic, each one tracing a different way that what we have witnessed, believed, or inherited can quietly reorganize our perception of the world around us.