The film installation focuses on the forced cohabitation of two war widows in bombedout Munich. The viewer encounters a small house. The room can be seen from the outside through two windows: Marya fled to Munich with her two children in 1947, hoping for a new start. Cecilia has a child from a relationship with a Black soldier. She hides the child so that the authorities won’t take it away from her. A look at the setting combines family history with contemporary history. Both are inhabited by ghosts, which are neither conjured nor banished, but simply described. One side
realizes that she has believed a lie, the other feels contempt and humiliation. The art film
searches for images of connection and reconciliation that are still socially relevant today,
in our time.
Veronika Veit, born 1968, lives and works in Munich.
