94 Years and 1 Nursing Home Later
a documentary film project by Laurel Greenberg
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94 Years and 1 Nursing Home Later a documentary film project by Laurel Greenberg
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Story About Love, Pride, Denial,
"Best Documentary" - Silver Images Film Festival "guaranteed to provoke adult viewers to a question of conscience" - Boston Phoenix "this short tape is plenty long enough to pack a wollop" - Chicago Tribune "highly intimate...powerful cinema verite moments" - NewEnglandFilm.com
94 Years and 1 Nursing Home Later begins when filmmaker Laurel Greenberg watches some home movies that her father shot of his mother in a nursing home in Philadelphia. "Do you like it here?" Marvin asks his mother Belle. Her weak smile and feigned enthusiasm seem to satisfy Marvin, yet are disturbing to Laurel, who sets out to uncover her grandmother's true feelings. An immigrant from Russia, Belle Greenberg built her life around caring for her family. How did she come to be alone and isolated from this family at the end of her life? Through intimate scenes that draw in the viewer, Greenberg depicts the struggle to balance personal needs with familial responsibility, fragmenting of families across the country, and the difficult evolution of the caretaker parent to dependent elder. Shot on video and film, 94 Years and 1 Nursing Home Later was completed in August of 1999 and is 46 minutes in length. It was produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary. |
