Published: 2019-02-051

Recovery Identity Considering a Mother’s Story: Post-Dependency Structure of Narration of the Film Once my Mother by Sophia Turkiewicz

Gabriela Sitek
Media - Culture - Social Communication
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.2965

Abstract

The text is an analysis and interpretation of narration in the film Niegdyś moja matka (Once my Mother, 2013), in which Sophia Turkiewicz presents the story of a mediated experience of World War II and builds a story about her own life. The work shows the film as a story about recovery identity, which is to overcome the overwhelming history of traumatic events. The author refers to the category of post-memory and diagnoses of Marianne Hirsch about the creative structure of post-memory. In the analysis and interpretation of the film Once my Mother, the author uses a category of constructed identity, shown in the work Narracja, tożsamość i czas written by Katarzyna Rosner and the book Time, Narrative and History written by David Carr. The use of archival footage and stagings of past events in the film is analysed to show a re-evaluation of past events. In this process, the identity of the narrator is constructed. Work draws attention to found footage as a form of film, which allows to show a redefinition of identity. The article aims to illustrate the impact of events related to World War II on the private relationship of people, for the analysed film – a mother and daughter.

Keywords:

post-memory, found footage, home movie, narrative, identity

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Sitek, G. (2019). Recovery Identity Considering a Mother’s Story: Post-Dependency Structure of Narration of the Film Once my Mother by Sophia Turkiewicz. Media - Culture - Social Communication, 4(13), 39–55. https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.2965

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