Description Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who has been making films since the 1970s, has created an exciting and widely recognized body of essay and documentary films.
Her work is both deeply personal and political.
She discusses the complex relationship between history and the present and reflects on her identity as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria and Europe.
Tropes of travel and migration feature heavily in her work as means of experiencing the world and of staying aliv.