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This film is a retelling of the last short story by Franz Kafka. The story asks, but does not answer the question how does everyday art bring people together? The narrator wonders why the community is so enraptured by Josephine’s performances that even in moments of danger they gathered to listen? This is particularly puzzling since the mice, who are a race of workers, are not themselves musical and Josephine’s singing is quite honestly no more than a piping, hardly different from ordinary speech. I present the story of Josephine, as something transmitted across time, something that comes from inside the body of an oppressed people; spoken alone, summoned mysteriously, at the edge of consciousness. A series of scenes take place in quiet spaces in New York’s Lower East Side that contain within them traces of the past, community gardens, tenement courtyards, a cemetery. Men and women walk, pace, stroll, sit alone reciting the story to themselves. In the middle of winter, a little boy fishes in the East River. They are not performing; they have no audience. They recite alone, not always fluently, sometimes with effort, sometimes even stumblingly. We see the seasons change, suggesting a labor of memory that continues over months and years.
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