Thievery and Songs
Synopsis
In Thievery and Songs Gernot Wieland has made an exceptionally beautiful, tragicomic and humorous work, framed by the story of a dancer, Hilde Holger, who in 1938 fled Austria into exile in Bombay. This collage of moving images is composed of Super 8 film, video, watercolours, drawings, claymation and photographs.
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