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Press Release:
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To be "out" in our culture has many different meanings.
For writer, Irene
Reti, coming out as a lesbian followed quickly on the heels of discovering
that she was Jewish, a family history that had been hidden from her until
she was 17. Producer Joan Schuman weaves Irene's story (both interviews
and excerpts of her forthcoming book by the same title) with her own memory
of a shoebox of letters from family who didn't survive the Holocaust.
Questions about destiny, assimilation, memory and history are layered in an
aural patchwork of stories, Klezmer music, and the voyeuristic readings of
other people's lives. Irene's journey from hiding to openess as both a Jew
and as a lesbian -- has taken more than twenty years to unfold. She is the
keeper of memory not only for her own family, but also for others
struggling to come out amdist oppression and fear.
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Credits:
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Produced by Joan Schuman
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Availability:
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Until 7 November 2000
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