Foreclosed Home Movie

A memoir of losing a home in 1930, in Miami, becomes the sister tale to a foreclosure in 2013. Unable to accept the loss of her foreclosed home, the filmmaker’s mother recounts its rooms and features. Photographs and abstractly animated details of the house and its furniture—printed from linoleum blocks directly onto 16mm film––alternate with the memoir of the 1920s, echoing the cyclical nature both of economic booms (and busts) and of trauma.

Year

2019

Director

Lisa Danker

Duration

8 min

Country

United States

Language

English