SD Video. Sony DCR-PC100. Color. 14 min 05 sec. 2024.
Trailer
Boller Street is a short film tracing the story of my fifth great-grandmother, Yetta Ballenberg (née Rosenheim), the only member of her family to leave the small German village of Jebenhausen for the United States in the early 19th century. Shot on a return trip to the village in 2024, the film blends camcorder footage with speculative narration to explore the absence and fragmentation that often define Ashkenazi Jewish memory. Inspired by works like Shoah, Occupied City, and Summer in Baden-Baden, the film uses contemporary images to draw out buried histories. It shifts from an archival tone to a personal voice, merging observation, research, and familial inheritance. The two-lane road that gives the film its name runs through a place that has forgotten much of its Jewish past. Boller Street is a meditation on time, diaspora, and the imaginative labor required to reconstruct a history scattered by distance and erasure.
Screenings
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. Museum of the History of Polish Jews. November 8, 2025.
I am sending you love from the future. Mandeville Art Gallery. La Jolla, CA. Jan 10 - Feb 9, 2025