Mój dom

The Polish woman was deported to Siberia by the Soviet authorities in 1939 before taking up residence in the so-called “Regained Territories”’ of Poland, from which the German had only recently been expelled in the aftermath of the Second World War. Her intimate accounts of war and forced resettlement take us to Poland, Siberia and Germany and read like a game of deception that encompasses peace, loss, hunger and death. Whilst the viewer conjures up mental images thereof, the camera details the daily lives of these now elderly women. The narrative is free flowing, like the changing fronts of the war and the destinies of the film's protagonists. Partly a traditional narrative made up of fragmentary memories on the loss of childhood and homeland, the occasional cutaways to archive and landscape footage projected onto bare walls generate an abstract, daydream-like viewing experience. JG