The Small Ones

During WWII, the US Army Graves Registration Service hired the filmmaker’s Hungarian cousin, Dr. Sandor Lenard, to reconstruct the bones — small and large — of dead American soldiers. This elliptical work, which resonates as an anti-war meditation, is composed of excerpts of Sandor’s letters to Sachs’ family, highly abstracted war imagery and home movies of children at a birthday party. “Profound. The soundtrack is amazing. The image at the end of the girl with the avocado seed so hopeful. Good work.”— Barbara Hammer, filmmaker Screenings: TriBeca Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria Film Fest (Award), Dallas Video Festival; Pacific Film Archive, MadCat Film Fest