Fool’s Gold
In 1822 gold was found near Dahlonega, Georgia; Cherokees were forbidden to dig for it and were force-marched to the East in the Trail of Tears. Fool’s Gold peels away the layers of affluent colour-co-ordinated shops, cafes and big cars in small-town Dahlonega, to reveal a community, where people like Myra and Thomas, live out […]
Resisters Trailer
Framed through a letter to the Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg Resisters is both a celebration of Berlin’s 100 years of resistance to fascism and a call to action against nationalism. Taking a two-fold journey through Berlin, a geographical one and a psychic one, Daniels Jewish flaneuse reflects on Berlin’s turbulent history of revolution and resistance […]
RESISTERS 1
Located in Berlin and framed by a personal voiced address to the revolutionary Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, the film brings the largely silenced stories of ordinary individuals who resisted fascism during the Third Reich, often at the cost of their own lives, into the present. In contrast to large state memorials to the victims of the […]
1948 What We Knew
An autobiographical essay documentary filmed on a smartphone in London from the start of the Israeli state’s murderous attack on Gaza in October 1923, three Jewish women of European heritage – Ruth, Gail and me, all born in 1948, the same year as the Israeli state – discuss the (fairy) stories of empty deserts and […]
If Not Now
If Not Now is an essay film addressed to my Jewish great-great grandmother, Rebecca, who lived and died in Brick Lane in London’s East End. Her death haunts my memories. Brick Lane has been home to successive immigrant communities, Huguenot weavers, Jews, Bengalis; today it is semi-gentrified with hipster clothes shops, street food, beigel bakeries, […]
Not Reconciled
In this prize winning experimental documentary, the ghosts of Carlos and Rosa, young republican fighters in the Spanish civil war, roam Belchite, a town in Northern Spain ruined in a three week battle, waiting for the discovery of their unmarked graves.
RESISTERS
In this multilayered documentary addressed to the Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, the filmmaker’s Jewish flaneuse reflects on Berlin’s history of revolution and resistance to fascism, and the dangerous growth of the nationalist AfD political party. Poetic vignettes addressed to historic resisters to fascism memorialised in Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) are interweaved with stills, archive, interviews and […]
Next Year in Lerin
Vassil and his friend Nikola are Macedonians born in Greece. In 1948, during the Greek Civil War Vassil, Nikola and 28 thousand children, Greek and Macedonian, were taken from their villages and their mothers by the communist-led Democratic Army and raised in orphanages in Eastern Europe. Most of the Macedonian children never saw their mothers […]
Lost in Gainesville
Hector was 8 when his father brought him from Mexico to Gainesville, North Georgia, in the heart of the American south. Olga was 12 when her father swam the Rio Grande with her on his back. Thomas was 16 when his mother put him on a bus alone, with a bag of tacos for the […]
Breathing Still 2020
Part activist film, part essay film, a compelling portrait of Berlin as the right-wing nationalist party, the AfD wins seats in Parliament for the first time. Weaving together voice-over, stills, archive and found footage, Daniels’ flaneuse, a follower of the Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, who was assassinated by fascists nearly a century ago, explores Berlin’s […]