Title: Family Stories
Date: January-June 2009
Keywords: One Family | Four Generations | Two Films | Too many Emotions

"Family Stories" is two stop motion films about family history and family relationships, in which
the family members are represented by colourful thread spools. The spools roll through their lives,
changing direction when they move away or back home, crossing life lines of others, joining them
for a while and sometimes separating from each other again.

The first film MOVING FAMILY investigates the history of movements of the own Jewish family
over the last four generations - starting in central Europe at the end of the 19th century,
over the Holocaust, the first years in Palestine and Israel's foundation and ending nowadays
with the six children of the family scattered again all over the globe. (view film hier)

Photo by Astrid Zuidema

In the second film HOME FEELING an emotional component is added. The relationships between
the members of the family and their emotions toward each other and toward their home are
being visualised by knots. The personal thread-lines undulate and become knotted during family
conflicts, entwine when reconciliation is sought, and spin a colourful and complex web around the
parental home. The film "zooms-in' on the last five years of the family and shows the way
they handle with the complex question of the future of their home. (view film hier)

 

 

 

The project won the "Melkweg Prize" for the most original and personal graduation project of the
Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009.