Ostarbeiter (2019) 2:00

Combining family photos, original photographic work, social media screenshots, and Ukrainian cultural artifacts, this work has been created in conjunction with a documentary film project by the same name. 'Ostarbeiter' examines the effects of transgenerational trauma and Nazi Germany's slave laborer program that impacted the lives of between 3-5 million Central and Eastern Europeans during World War II.

This film emerged from an desire to make of my own inherited trauma and to explain my grandmother's emotionally abusive temperament. 

Its an acknowledgement and gesture of forgiveness Those who harm are often shaped by harm themselves and are often unable to heal in their own time