10 short documentaries about my childhood home

10 short documentaries about my childhood home recounts how my sisters and I struggle to reach common ground while dealing with the sale of the family house and our mother’s move to an assisted living situation. Using paper masks, Brechtian re-enactments, and family photographs, I made this film in response to the very real drama unfolding as my mother moved from our childhood home in Starnberg, Germany. The actors are family members. (10 mins., 2008)

Screenings & Broadcasts:

  • PBS Station WNET, New York, NY

  • ENVIRONs/ENVIRONment, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY (2010)

  • Dallas 23rd Annual FilmFest, Dallas, TX (2010)

  • Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD (2009);

  • Flickerings @ Cornerstone Festival, Chicago, IL (2009)

  • Detroit Shorts, Detroit, MI (2009)

  • Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, MT (2009)

  • Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Richmond, VA (2009)

  • Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA

  • Carnegie Art Center, Tonawanda, NY

  • Buffalo Women in the Arts, Buffalo State University, Buffalo, NY

  • Reel NY, Reel 13, WNET’s internet showcase for independent films, NY

  • Athen’s Ohio Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH

  • True Lives/False Lives, Buffalo, NY

  • Kino05, Toronto, Canada

Awards & Publications:

  • Third Place, Best Short Documentary, Athens Ohio International Film & Video Festival (2008)

  • The Journal of Short Film (2011)