Her Name is Nanny Nellie vs On the Impossibility of an Homage
On the Impossibility of an Homage is the shorter watch at 19m compared with 1h 18m. Her Name is Nanny Nellie is the older of the two (2023 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Her Name is Nanny Nellie
On the Impossibility of an Homage| Her Name is Nanny Nellie | On the Impossibility of an Homage | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 0.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 19m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Germany |
| Director | Daniel King | Xandra Popescu |
| Main cast | Irene Ridgeway | Gabriela Durleci, Cristian Susu, Mirela Simniceanu, Ion Tugearu |
Synopsis
Her Name is Nanny Nellie
Powerful and poignant, Her Name is Nanny Nellie offers us the rare privilege of bearing witness to a family reclaiming their history. In 1925, the Australian Museum commissioned three statues of ‘full blood ’Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be studied as examples of a ‘dying race.’ The woman was Nellie Walker, Irene Walker’s great grandmother and director Daniel King’s great, great grandmother. Now…
On the Impossibility of an Homage
Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.
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