The View from Our House
Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin, 2013, 76 min

Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers moderated by Elizabeth Dexter

A woman witnesses the ordinary oppression and fear of the early years of National Socialism. The film's structure of repetition and retelling foregrounds the way in which her life is stunted by increasing marginalisation and terror. "I’m only just eighteen but sometimes I already feel so old that I think of dying," she writes in a letter to her would-be lover. The View from Our House is based in part on the memories, unsent letters and notebooks of a young photographer who lived in Berlin-Tempelhof. Aspects of her life are mapped out within this small area of Berlin through a succession of haunted images and sounds that imbue place with a sense of memory and history.

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Screening as part of Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin: Berlin Trilogy