The film uses animated found objects from the family storage to recount the life of my mother. It is a 20th century biography: Growing up in the Nazi era, teenage years in post-war Germany, the building of the Wall, and life in the GDR as well as in a re-united Germany. It is a story of escape and conformism.
Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/223092851
Betina Kuntzsch studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. In 1988 she received her diploma with the video tape I SAT UPON A STONE. She worked at a GDR TV station and for film production companies. Since 1988, video tapes and installations, print graphics, animations, and documentaries. She lives and works in Berlin.
Filmography
1988 Ich saß auf einem Steine
1991 Fünfzehn Einheitsstücke
1998 Two-Step
2003 Ich habe eine Linie gesehen
2005 Spielend im Garten
2008 I.I – Auf der Suche nach Ela Geminada
2008 Jeder Text ist ein Wortbruch
2015 Wegzaubern
2016 Schleifentage
2017 Halmaspiel
2018 All und Alltag – eine Kurzbiografie der DEFA
2019 Schneestaub
2020 Zooo
2021 Kopf Faust Fahne - 10 Perspektiven auf das Thälmann-Denkmal
2024 Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen
