FILM

Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s latest work draws exclusively from the eclectic personal and public archive of their life up until their lasting estrangement from both parents at age 30. Alternating between the playful, poetic, and unsettling, While The Gods Were Busy With Another Child collages together photographs, 16mm film, VHS footage, interviews, and diary entries — a process of profound and necessary self and social interrogation. Whilst the film unflinchingly presents and analyses a precarious and challenging working-class childhood and adolescence in 1970s Munich, it is nevertheless a testament to the filmmaker’s enduring and wayward spirit of resistance, seeding the possibility of living a life on one’s own terms.