Deutschland

“Bowen returns with a multi-screen fairytale about a Haunted Girl and her Cousin. ‘Deutschland’, like her previous ‘sadomasochism,’ strains cinema through language, asking that we read along with a woman recalling her German roots while a four-play of home movies flicker by underneath her grave. The English text in the present is both summary and benediction (‘The war is over’), understanding that memory turns the people of our lives into characters, and all the characters are us.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2000