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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

  • 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