watch more clips Assistant Director: Ferdinand Maubrey; Groundwerk: Susken Rosenthal; Music: John Payne
"The Potato Woman" sequence featuring Julia Worm My grandmother and mother were bombed out of their homes three times during the last winter of WWII. Having been raised on tales of food rations and the terrors of air raids, my images of war have always been overwhelmingly feminine in tone. When I first visited Germany in 1988, I was intrigued by the idea that the country was "rebuilt by women." Since then I had an image of a woman lovingly building a structure -- a house, a wall, even a tower -- one potato at a time, like rebuilding Dresden brick by brick. I got to shoot it years later, in Baitz, formerly East Germany.