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  • Letters Home (II) (2010)
  • Short | Documentary, Short
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Letters Home (II) (2010)
Short | Documentary, Short
Letters Home is a three channel video created around the text of letters Freda Birnholz (the great-aunt of director Melissa Hacker) wrote to her family in New York as she traveled through Germany and Austria in 1945 as a member of the ...See moreLetters Home is a three channel video created around the text of letters Freda Birnholz (the great-aunt of director Melissa Hacker) wrote to her family in New York as she traveled through Germany and Austria in 1945 as a member of the American Army's Women's Army Corps. This was not the first time Freda had been to Europe; she was born in Austria and left in 1925 to start a new life in America. And the relatives she wrote to in New York had not lived there long. Jewish refugees, they had fled Austria in 1939 and were the surviving remnants of a large family. As Freda journeys back to the sites of her youth, she sifts through and reports on the destruction she sees around her, and the details she learns of the destruction of her family. The triptych of images is a visual representation of her state of mind, torn between searching for remnants of her past, locating herself in the unsettled present, and longing for a secure future. As she travels through Europe in the immediate aftermath of WWII she travels through the sites of a world that no longer exists, searching for people, objects, and messages left behind, and struggles with how to communicate what she finds to her family in New York. Written by Melissa Hacker See less
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Director
Melissa Hacker
Producer
Melissa Hacker
Composer
Karen Goldfeder
Editor
Melissa Hacker
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Updated Nov 30, 2010
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Nov 30, 2010 (United States)

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