Loneliness -- Fiction

Overview "Gregory Heimstat was the ideal father, at least that's what his daughter Blythe thought until he disappeared to his homeland of Germany amidst the devastation of the London blitz. Blythe finds respite in an American soldier who offers her the escape she needs, a new life far away from the judgmental stares of her neighbors and the home in which the ghosts of her father's betrayals reside. Finding herself in Nashville, Tennessee with a husband she knows little about and a culture she can't...

Overview "Strangers is a short narrative film that focuses on a young Southern woman, Kathy, who moves to New England for college. She tries to form bonds with others but is hampered by her own difficulty with emotional communication and sense of cultural isolation and displacement. All of this comes to a head when she meets Isabel, a fellow outsider whom she tries to bond with only to fail due to her own shortcomings. The piece focuses on the effects of isolation, loneliness and deals with regret...