Movie Details
Original Language:English
Jeano
15 min
Plot
Circling around two figures a New England housewife the wisher and a character in a more mythic waiting space perhaps collecting all the wishes the film considers the potential power in the wishes of those waiting for the war to end Created with support from Smithsonian Folkways it is an imaginative exploration into how we engage with the dreams of the past In 1941 Vermonter Helen Hartness Flanders visited the home of Margaret Shipman an octogenarian living with her sisters in the small town of Lee MA to ask her to sing any old songs she knew for her recording machine Margaret a woman with a beautiful understated voice delivered a song with a simply voiced wish for the end of all wars Oh if i were queen of france or still better pope of rome Id have no fighting men abroad nor weeping maids at home All the world should be at peace and the might should be the right Id have those that made the quarrelling the only ones to fight
