Love Stories My Grandmother Tells

A portrait of Dana Plays 90 year old paternal grandmother Peggy Regler reminiscing about her love affairs and significant relationships Regler tells about her failed first marriage the agreement she had to stay until the children were grown but to see other lovers which resulted in the true love she found with her second husband and renowned writer Gustav Regler who later died a tragic death in India The love affairs are historically rooted in the political and technological developments 20th century and are narratively based in a complex soundimage structure Interludes silent optically printed film passages narrated with intertitles excerpted from her diaries and early childhood memories formalistically refer to early cinema The footage in these passages is recontextualized and interwoven metaphorically throughout the text