Ruth Novaczek

Filmes

Eat the Dust
Director
dance across Europe in search of a happy ending
Crime Scene
Director
short film about narrative dead ends
Footnote
Director
short film about women responding to questions of love
Drive She Said
Director
Set to Rashid Taha's YA RAI, a song in Arabic about exile.
Rootless cosmopolitans
Director
Estelle and Lily are two Jewish women for whom keeping a kosher home and marrying a nice Jewish boy are not on the agenda. Alienated from themselves and wondering why 'it isn't exactly trendy to be Jewish', Estelle and Lily meet each other and explore their Jewishness. They explore the stories of a mother and daughter in fifties Britain, a refugee from Vienna, and Israeli Iranian storyteller, a neurotic father, a Trinidadian woman, and finally the two women end up on a roof looking at Israel. Rootless Cosmopolitans mixes music, family and food to take a wry look at the myth of the Jewish princess and asks 'What is a Jew?'
Tea Leaf
Director
Ruth Novaczeks first film takes the form of a confession to the filmmaker’s new lover. It was originally shot super 8 and re-filmed from two projectors to create various super impositions. For Novaczek, this is a film about what she terms “the typical Jewish London woman of (her) generation”, who grew up in the 1960s, denying her culture and sexuality, only to try to come to terms with it during the tumultuous Thatcherite 1980s.
A Woman Returns from a Journey
Director
A mysterious woman travels through the threatening territory of film noir and the enigmas of philosophy - from BFI London Film Festival 2016 programme