The Greeting From My Mother
Short Documentary ©2007 / 103 minutes
A liturgy, a litany, a laud, THE GREETING FROM MY MOTHER traces the sublime and almost invisible bonds of motherhood, daughterhood and sisterhood over "one hundred years and two world wars." Familial rites and rituals converge in the form of nebulous belief (sometimes objectively, sometimes as metonymy). Images whisper by, like rosary beads, pointing to an underlying message, a personal conclusion: the specifics are secondary, it is in reverence and repetition that salvation can be found, that an anchor can be grasped, that a weather candle can be lit.
- Ivan Lozano (Cinematexas programming director)
Festivals
Portland Women's Film Festival, Portland, USA 2008
Da Vinci Film Festival, Corvallis, USA 2008
Eye Am screening (online TV), Manhattan, USA 2008
Other Cinema in der ATA (Artist Television Access) Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2007
Austin Film Festival, Austin, USA 2007
Videofest, Dallas, USA 2007
Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, USA 2007
PDX Peripheral Documentary Experimental Film Festival, Portland, USA 2007
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, USA 2007
Publications
Part of "Journal of Short Film" DVD Compilation, Volume 13