LOSS
Original language title: VATERS LAND

Country of production: Germany
Year: 2002
Language: German
30 mins.

Something is missing from the German landscape: its Jewish population. In this formally daring lament, a series of non-Jewish German intellectuals speak about their own experiences coming of age after the War. In various ways, they came to realize that something was missing from their country, which was profoundly worse for and traumatized by that loss. The speakers are matted digitally over a very small number of long take images taken out the window of a train moving across the German landscape. This counterpoint gives the speakers' words an immediate and stirring resonance in relation to the subject that they are discussing.

Director: Nurith Aviv
Cinematography: Nurith Aviv, Sophie Maintigneux, Markus Seitz
Editing: Nurith Aviv
Sound: Matthias Pfister, Annegret Fricke, Gregory Fernandez
Producer: Thomas Geyer
Production Company: Thomas Geyer Filmproduktion
Source:
Thomas Geyer Filmproduktion
Ahrenshooper Zeile 51
D14129 Berlin, Germany
geyerfilm@aol.com

Nurith Aviv, born in Tel Aviv to German Jewish parents, is one of the world's leading documentary cinematographers. Long based in France, Ms. Aviv has worked extensively with directors including Claude Berri, Amos Gitai, William Klein, Datcha Marini, Mira Nair, Jean-Marie Teno, Agnes Varda, and many others. She has also directed six films herself.

Saturday, March 29
5pm
Facets Cinematheque
Screening with THE SILENCE OF GREEN and AMERICAN DREAMS #3 and AMERICA CROSSING