Latvian animator Signe Baumane (with a long list of shorts to her credit) releases her first feature length film–a chronicle of mental illness played out against 20th Century Latvian history including economic booms/busts, invasions by Nazis/Russians, & life in the former Soviet Union. Female relatives fall in love & get pregnant, then succumb to depression… Continue reading ROCKS IN MY POCKET
Day: September 3, 2014
SHADOWS FROM MY PAST
Wishing does not make it so. Over 70 years after Gita Weinrauch Kaufman escaped from Austria, she returns to Vienna with her Archival Photos and Family Letters to interview Austrian and Jewish Luminaries… But we have now have access to so much about the Holocaust that this primitive film–no matter how sincere–begs more questions than it answers.… Continue reading SHADOWS FROM MY PAST