Eclipse in the Garden
2021 / super 8mm / colour / sound / single screen / 6'04
My mother always wanted a garden, and now she has one. A poem about the relationship between a name and a place.
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Tatars and other non-Russian communities in the USSR were forced to go through Russification - the spread of Russian language, culture, and people into non-Russian cultures and regions. Forcing the many minority groups within the USSR to accept the Russian culture was an attempt to prevent self-determination and separatism. As a result many people including my mom were never able to use their mother tongue, eventually forgetting it. Assembled from super 8 home movies made during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Film processing by Niagara Custom Lab
4K scan and colour by Frame Discreet
Thank you Ontario Arts Council and Koyama Press Provides
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