Little Short Film (2015)

• 82%
• 2015
• Pía Jensen

The film was developed in a workshop with artist Sam Hopkins. Little Short film is a piece that touches upon family relations, modern history, European identity and the organic nature of the spoken language, within the context of auto-ethnography. In a Skype conversation with her mother, director Pia Ilonka is a patient listener to her mother, who engages in what Pia Ilonka can make a film about while in Berlin. The piece is humorous and visually enthralling, as the audience is devoid of visuals apart from the words spoken, which are presented rhythmically onscreen, mimicking the mother - daughter conversation. The words become themselves protagonists, in this dance of colloquial language, which not only underlines the organic aspects of the spoken, but also permits the viewer to create a secondary space, an imaginary space, resulting from a lack of literary visual imagery. The conversation, although trivial, touches upon universal themes such as war, regret, family history and the holocaust.