Return
by Sylvia de Swaan
“Return” is an exploration of my personal history and a meditation on memory and war. It consists of a series of journeys through Eastern Europe to retrace routes my mother, sister, and I traversed as refugees at the end of World War II, eventually eventually arriving to my native city in Southern Ukraine where I'd last been as a small child.I'm interested in the construction of narrative and the cinematic juxtaposition of still images - using the voyage as a metaphor for a film, or a narrative thread that leads one through life.