Video from Love Is Not an Orange
Directed by: Otilia Babara
Love Is Not an Orange
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Otilia Babara (Dir), 73 minutes, Belgium/Moldova/Netherlands/France, WNY Premiere
In Romanian w/ English subtitles.
Arthouse Centerpiece
During a mass exodus in the early 1990s, women left Moldova to provide for their families from afar amid the economic hardship wrought by the breakup of the Soviet Union. From the West, they would mail gifts like blue jeans, treats, toys, and oranges. Their children reciprocate by sending videotapes from home. Using personal video archives, Love Is Not an Orange paints an intimate portrait of familial exchange and love from afar, as a nation of children become motherless in the wake of capitalism. A Taskovski Films release.
Festivals: MoMA Doc Fortnight
Still from Love Is Not an Orange
Directed by: Otilia Babara
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