TEN SHORT VIDEOS ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD HOME...AND OTHER RECENT WORKS

As an experimental filmmaker, Buffalonian Dorothea Braemer is fond of using alternative forms to explore and expand documentary. In her recent series Ten Short Videos About My Childhood Home, she explores re-enactment, silent film piano music, observational documentary strategies, and time-lapse images that are also part of an installation currently on view at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery on the North Campus. Using a gentle, subtle humor, Braemer examines her relationship to her mother, reminiscences of childhood, and the story of three daughters who struggle to find common ground as they help their mother transition from the family home to assisted care.

The screening will also feature selection of recent work from 2003-07, including: Confusing the Ballot, Debbie Rudman's take on "ballot confusion" (co-directed by and starring Debbie Rudman, starring Stephanie Rothenberg), and Flag Story, in which eminent storyteller Karima Amin tells a story about democracy and flags (these two excerpts are from The Democracy Show, produced by Termite TV Collective with visual effects by Carl Lee); Where the Saale Meets the Elbe: Three Women talk about their Lives, a documentary about three rural, formerly East German women and how they coped with reunification (produced as part of an artist residency in Werkleitz, Germany); Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity (co-directed by Stefani Bardin and starring Ron Ehmke, Jody Lafond, Katie Young, Josephine Anstey, Lucy Anstey, Emmit Dehart, Greta Lee, Carl Lee, Holly Johnson, Jax Deluca, and more).

THOUGHTS ABOUT MY FAMILY; AT HOME WITH THE GULLIBLES, CONFUSING THE BALLOT (co-directed by and starring Debbie Rudman, starring Stephanie Rothenberg, 2006, 2:18min); FLAG STORY with Karima Amin (2006, 3:17min); WHERE THE SAALE MEETS THE ELBE: THREE WOMEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES; 9 WAYS TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY co-directed by Stefani Bardin and starring Ron Ehmke, Jody Lafond, Katie Young, Josephine Anstey, Lucy Anstey, Emmit Dehart, Greta Lee, Carl Lee, Holly Johnson, Jax Deluca, and more. (Braemer and Bardin, 2003, dv, 15min); RANDOM NOTES OF RAGPICKER WOMAN (1996, video, 14min)

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