OUR CATALOG
The Walnut Tree
A film by Elida Schogt
2000 | 11 minutes | Color | 16mm/DVD | Order No. 01722
Available only as part of Elida Schogt Trilogy.
SYNOPSIS
PRESS
“Elida Schogt brings craft back to the art of filmmaking; this non-sentimental film on family history and the Holocaust achieves more in 11 minutes than many six-hour epics on similar topics. The director makes every frame count.”
“Schogt returns to the well of her family's experience of the Holocaust, and finds elegant, elegiac use both for archive images and for the moments that were never captured.
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Toronto Festival of Festivals
- Margaret Mead Film Festival
- WYBE Through the Lens Series
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Elida Schogt is a Toronto-based filmmaker and media artist whose work mines personal experience, challenges story-telling conventions and questions power systems.
Best known for her innovative visual treatment of the collapse of representation in Zyklon Portrait, her internationally-acclaimed short documentary on Holocaust memory, her films have screened at festivals around the world.
She holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research, New York and a practice-based PhD in Visual Arts from York University, Toronto. She is currently working on a memoir. (07/19)