I Told Her This Was Home (2013)

Synopsis

Explores ideas of landlessness and diaspora through abstracted dreamscapes constructed by layering new and archival footage, rotoscoping, and text. Based on an actual dream, the film maps the comforts and restlessness of a constant search for home.

“An intangible portrait of space and memory.” BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival

Screenings

Official Selection, Mix Queer Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
Still Untitled: A Quarterly Literary Salon, Philadelphia, PA (2014)
Official Selection , BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, London, England (2014)
Official Selection, Experiments in Cinema v9.72, Albuquerque, NM (2014)
Official Selection, Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Austin, TX (2014)
Haverford College, Philadelphia (2014)
Jewish Voice For Peace, National Membership Conference, Baltimore (2015)
Invited, She Found Her Place, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2015)
Turning the Lens: New Middle Eastern Queer and Feminist Filmmakers and Artists, Modern Language Association Conference, Austin, TX (2016)

Credits

Writer, Director:
Irit Reinheimer

Creative Producer:
Lindsey Martin

Editors:
Irit Reinheimer
Lindsey Martin

Sound Design:
Lynne Trepanier

8mm Footage:
Steven Reinheimer (1943 -1996)