Places Other People Have Lived

Laura Yilmaz / United States / 2011 / 6 min.

synopsis

An exploration of the experiences associated with a place whose appearance, arrangements, smells, and even deficiencies form the memory of a distant past. The sale of the director’s childhood home, which had belonged to her family for 25 years, forms the starting point for looking over old photographs, retelling old anecdotes, and interviewing relatives. Using animation, the director pieces these fragments together in order to explore the house’s individual rooms and her own childhood.