Pareidolia2012

PAREIDOLIA is an abstract narrative exploring the architecture of the body as a container of memories. Layers of stories, dreams and memory fragments are interconnected like muscle fibers. The film uses bleached and distressed film stock, cut-paper puppets, stop-motion sets, hand-drawn animation and various hybrid techniques. Through a re-imagining of family stories and life events, PAREIDOLIA attempts to connect the filmmaker's experiences witnessing public cremations in India to her Great Grandmother’s miraculous survival of a mass killing by Hungarian Nazis along the banks of the Danube in 1944.