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Bertha’s Children

Grahame Weinbren

Experimental film | Etats-Unis | 16 mm | 1.37 | b&w | mono | 1976 | 7' 
30 €

Original language: Anglais Screening Copy: 16 mm
"Everything being alike everything is different simply different naturally simply different." Gertrude Stein • Here are five of Bertha's children. They walk, they sit, they look at their watches, they speak their actions. My great aunt Bertha had seven children who are now between fifty and sixty-five years old. They all grew up in New York City and, even after they became adults and had their own families, lived in the same geographic region. When I visited New York one winter, I asked each of them to be in a film and all of them agreed. When I returned the following winter, however, only David, Marty, Aaron, Bernie and Thelma would do it. Frieda, concerned about the crazy people who might see the film and then write her nasty anonymous letters, refused, and Sylvia was in Florida at the time. --R. F. (1976)
"Tout étant pareil, tout est différent, simplement différent, naturellement simplement différent." Gertrude Stein • Voici cinq des enfants de Bertha. Ils marchent, s’assoient, regardent leur montre, parlent de leurs actions. Ma grand-tante Bertha a eu sept enfants qui ont aujourd'hui entre cinquante et soixante-cinq ans. Ils ont tous grandi à New York et, même après être devenus adultes et avoir fondé leur propre famille, ils ont vécu dans la même région géographique. Lors de mon séjour à New York un hiver, j'ai demandé à chacun d'eux de jouer dans un film et ils ont tous accepté. Cependant, à mon retour l'hiver suivant, seuls David, Marty, Aaron, Bernie et Thelma le faisaient. Frieda, inquiète des fous qui pourraient voir le film et lui écrire ensuite de vilaines lettres anonymes, a refusé, et Sylvia était en Floride à ce moment-là. --R. F. (1976)

Credits

Director: Grahame Weinbren Associate Director: Robert Friedmann

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