SELECTED SCREENINGS

Museum of Modern Art, New York (2003)
Berlin Film Festival (1981)
Cinema du Reel Festival (1981)

This moving experimental short uses rephotographed home movies and overlapping soundtracks to relate one woman's true memoir of growing up Jewish in 1930s Berlin. She describes her family's charmed and secure life, at the center of which is a walled garden, leading up to their flight from Germany in the face of Nazism and antisemitism.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"Haunting... this film gains its considerable power by our hindsight knowledge of the impending Holocaust."
- Gerald Peary, The Real Paper

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HOME USE ONLY $18.00 plus shipping Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional Use) Does not include Public Performance Rights Home Use Policy (pdf)

INSTITUTIONAL USE $36.00 plus shipping Classroom/Institutional Use Only DVD Does not include Public Performance Rights Institutional Use Policy (pdf)

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The National Center For Jewish Film Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS053, Waltham MA 02454 P: (781) 899 7044, F: (781) 736 2070

Our Time
in the Garden

USA, 1981, 15 minutes, B&W
Directed by Ron Blau

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Public Exhibition 35mm, 16mm, Beta Rental also available