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A documentary film about my grandmother and my mother, and the ideological chasm between them.
The film
An ideological chasm lay between my grandmother and my mother — between blind obedience to the kibbutz framework and an uncompromising individualism that questioned what was taken for granted.
The film traces their relationship across a lifetime: childhood on the kibbutz and in the children’s houses, adolescence, aging, forgetting and death.
After my grandmother passed away, we found boxes of material — 8mm films, negatives, slides. Everything was digitized, and a lifetime unfolded as files on a hard drive.
Hours of conversations with my mother were recorded, edited and shaped into the text that carries the film: a raw reflection on a long, tangled and quietly loving bond.
Stills
Frames from the family’s 8mm films, also printed as a set of postcards.
