Incommunicado
 

1989

Lo-band U-matic video, 26 minutes (English/German)
Incorporating Super 8 film material

Made during an ERASMUS award semester residency at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Cologne University.

A DVD with German subtitles, edited by Rainer Nelissen, was produced 2009, German translation, Tanya Ury & Amin Farzanefar.

Trailer 3 minutes

 

Superficially, the documentary-style narrative describes the alienated relationships of three Jewish sisters. The youngest, in search of her past, travels to Germany where the camera finds her doppelganger and an alternative life. The notion that subjective and personal histories cannot reconcile themselves with a recorded and social history infects the fiction, which never quite achieves an integrated form.

Tanya Ury

 

     

 

 
 
   
 
Trailer 3 minutes