With the heavenly surroundings of their Russian summer house as the setting, the filmmaker turns her parents into actors in their personal stories, in hopes of creating a healing family myth.
In this experimental documentary, the filmmaker wants to overlie the pain felt by her parents– survivors of the Holocaust and labour camps – with happy memories and testimonies to their closeness. For more than 25 years, she has been trying to influence their memory and the family history with the power of images and wishful thinking, and thus heal the past. In this debut film, she turns her parents into actors in their personal story. The Russian summer house as a collection of metaphors, where time is not linear but mythical: the story continues while repeating itself.
Times:
Friday 20 September 3:30pm - 5:19pm, Louis Hartloper Complex 3
Sunday 22 September 11:30am - 1:33pm, Slachtstraat Filmtheater 2
September 12, 2024
