Summary Margaret Silverman's 9 minute experimental video documentary, Running Scenarios,considers the complex question: What does it mean to be Jewish? Through a five window split screen we view intimate familial Jewish experience through a Bar Mitzvah and the ritual making Challah, multi-media paintings of youth and Israeli military, and documentary interviews of the Jewish Diaspora, all flank the central figure of a runner, Silverman herself. The runner is at once American, a woman, a mother and Jewish who struggles to reconcile the multi-faceted and non-hierarchical nature of her Jewish identity. This work provides no easy answers, giving the viewer the freedom to be with the question and reconcile the issues for themselves. View more details
Genres : Family Biography Short
Release date : Apr 11, 2003
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Summary Margaret Silverman's 9 minute experimental video documentary, Running Scenarios,considers the complex question: What does it mean to be Jewish? Through a five window split screen we view intimate familial Jewish experience through a Bar Mitzvah and the ritual making Challah, multi-media paintings of youth and Israeli military, and documentary interviews of the Jewish Diaspora, all flank the central figure of a runner, Silverman herself. The runner is at once American, a woman, a mother and Jewish who struggles to reconcile the multi-faceted and non-hierarchical nature of her Jewish identity. This work provides no easy answers, giving the viewer the freedom to be with the question and reconcile the issues for themselves. View more details
Genres : Family Biography Short
Release date : Apr 11, 2003
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
