My Mothers Place

My Mothers Place is an experimental documentary focusing on the artists mother a thirdgeneration ChineseTrinidadian who at 80 still has vivid memories of a history lost or quickly disappearing She conveys these with a storytelling style and a frankness that is distinctly West Indian A tape about memory oral history and autobiography My Mothers Place interweaves interviews personal narrative home movies and verité footage of the Caribbean to explore the formation of race class and gender under colonialism