While the Gods Were Busy with Another Child

While the Gods Were Busy with Another Child

by Andrea Luka Zimmerman (2026, 25mins)

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.

Alternating between the playful, poetic and unsettling, While the Gods… collages together photographs, 16mm, VHS, interviews and diary entries in a process of profound and necessary self – and social interrogation.

Unflinching in its presentation and analysis of a precarious and challenging working-class childhood and adolescence in 1970s Munich, nevertheless While the Gods… manifests an enduring and wayward spirit of resistance, seeding the possibility of living a life on one’s own terms.

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