The Potato Woman (2004/2006)
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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 ÐÐ a house, a wall, even a tower ÐÐ one potato at a time, like rebuilding Dresden brick by brick. I got to shoot it years later, in Baitz, formerly East Germany.
with Julia Worm
music by John Payne
groundwerk by Susken Rosenthal
assistant director: Ferdinand Maubrey
edited into The Heart of No Place
Ankara International Film Festival, 2007
NewMediaFest 2007, Köln
Dança em Foco, Rio de Janeiro, 2007
Los Angeles Short Film Festival, 2007
Detmold International Short Film Festival, 2006
LA Freewaves, 2006
"Where Is the Love?" International Short Film Festival, Bucharest, 2006
Fullerton Film Festival, 2006
24 Hours of Nuremberg, 2006
International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary, 2004
Festival de Cine de Barcelona, 2004
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, 2004
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2004