How We Live - Messages To The Family

8.5 10
2017
106min

German

German Catalan

Country: Austria

Original Title: Messages from Our Troops to the Families They Can Barely Remember (2007)

Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcards to distant relatives. A jewel of the archival documentary.

German
German Catalan
Country: Austria
Original Title: Messages from Our Troops to the Families They Can Barely Remember (2007)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: Mar del Plata IFF/ Milano Filmmakers Festival/ Montréal - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma/ IndieCork Film Festival/ Diagonale/ Jeonju International Film Festival/ Jihlava IDFF/ Indielisboa/ Ann Arbor Film Festival/ Thessaloniki IDFF

How we live - Messages To The Family

This film is a study in the most private ephemera of film practice in a form of letter writing.

The family recordings that structure the film are like moving postcards, telling of various lives and lifepaths during the 20th century.

In this way, the film not only produces a community, but also establishes a timeless togetherness, allowing generations of filmmakers to speak to one another and, via the medium of the movie screen, to us.