Trailer for The Legend of My Uncle Arthur, which is part of Distant Trains, a series of documentaries unraveling the history and mysteries of my family. The intro video giving an outline to my paternal family’s story can be seen here https://vimeo.com/1002881910
Distant Trains – Introduction from Zev Robinson.
Around the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022, I suddenly found myself watching documentaries and fiction films about the Holocaust, one after another, for reasons that I’m couldn’t fathom. Then, I started a series of drawings based on the documentaries, again for reasons I couldn’t fathom.
That led me, somehow, to look into my own family history which has gone through pogroms, the Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II and the formation of Israel, not to mention thousands of miles of train (and ship) travel, and which in turn caused me to start an ongoing documentary project.
I’m currently working on other videos looking in more depth at each of the main protagonists.
