13th(2011)
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Ann Marie FLEMING
- Canada
- 2010
- 15min
- 35mm
- color
- Animation, Documentary
SYNOPSIS
Using the healing power of humor, the film probes the taboos around a very particular second-hand trauma.
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is an animated adaptation of Bernice EISENSTEIN’s critically acclaimed illustrated memoir. By using EISENSTEIN’s illustrations and voice the film makes the memoir written from a first-person point of view come to life. This is an extraordinary film, which deals with a second-hand trauma of a child, who is aware of the fact that her parents are holocaust survivors and yet cannot empathize with their painful experience. This film is unlike other in that it uses a parody of a B-horror film and shows the power of honesty with humor. (CHO Hye-young)
PROGRAM NOTE
Synopsis
Using the healing power of humor, the film probes the taboos around a very particular second-hand trauma.
Program Note
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is an animated adaptation of Bernice EISENSTEIN’s critically acclaimed illustrated memoir. By using EISENSTEIN’s illustrations and voice the film makes the memoir written from a first-person point of view come to life. This is an extraordinary film, which deals with a second-hand trauma of a child, who is aware of the fact that her parents are holocaust survivors and yet cannot empathize with their painful experience. This film is unlike other in that it uses a parody of a B-horror film and shows the power of honesty with humor. (CHO Hye-young)
Director
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Ann Marie FLEMINGAnn Marie FLEMING
Born in Okinawa in 1962, Ann Marie FLEMING is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was a writer/director resident at the Canadian Film Centre and an artist in residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
Credit
- ProducerMichael FUKUSHIMA, Gerry FLAHIVE
- Screenwriter Ann Marie FLEMING
- Music Normand ROGER, Pierre Yves DRAPEAU, Denis CHARTRAND
