Summaries

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 of challah, multi-media paintings of youth and Israeli military, and documentary interviews of the Jewish Diaspora, all which flank the central figure of a runner, Silverman herself. The runner is at once an 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 viewers the freedom to be with the question and reconcile the issues for themselves.—Anonymous

Details

Genres
  • Family
  • War
  • Biography
  • Documentary
  • Short
Release date Jan 31, 2011
Countries of origin United States Israel
Language English

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 10m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

All Filters