Short film
while the gods were busy with another child
2026 · 25 min
A quiet, fragmentary collage of personal archives that asks you to sit with memory and estrangement rather than follow a story.
- Directed by
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Overview
- This deeply exploratory work is drawn exclusively from the eclectic personal and public archive, in multiple formats, of Andrea’s life until their lasting estrangement from both parents, aged 30.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, family, identity, isolation
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman