KitchenerBerlin

As passing throughtorn formations concerns his mothers family heritage KitchenerBerlin revolves around his fathers family hometown The slash and the hyphen in the titles suggest both severance from the past and connections to it an ambivalence that is especially poignant for the descendants of the areas German settlers The history of the area underpins the film but refuses to bind it or restrict it from free association Hoffman assembles a wide range of visual materials including home movies television news footage and archival film as well as his own characteristically enticing images to build complex layers of superimpositions analogous to the impressions of memory Blaine Allen