Independent Lens . SHORT STACK 2006 . Paris, 1951

(L-R):

An older white woman with short brown hair looks down

A black-and-white photo of a tree-lined street and cars driving against a large arch

An old black-and-white photo of a young white girl with curly brown shoulder-length hair and a white woman with curly, short blonde hair

The Short

Jasmin Gordon’s mother makes a startling discovery 40 years after her father's death: she finds out that the man who raised her was not her real father. In midlife and without any physical remnants of the past, Jasmin's mother struggles to reconstruct her identity. This short film is a meditation on the process of reinterpreting personal history and the challenge of recollecting the past in the absence of images and objects.

Filmmaker Bio

Jasmin Gordon

Born in 1978, Jasmin Gordon grew up in Switzerland and the United States. Before graduating from Stanford University’s documentary film M.A. program in 2006, she lived in Paris and worked as a freelance photographer for French cultural organizations and in post-production at the Magnum Photo Agency. She also sold her photographs as book covers for various publishing houses in France.

Gordon's Master's thesis film, Monsieur Borges and I, received a Princess Grace Foundation Award and was on the festival circuit in late 2006. PARIS, 1951 screened at the Toronto Student Shorts Film Festival, the Rencontres Henri Langlois in France, the FAIF Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Rooftop Film Festival in Brooklyn and the Kyoto International Student film festival in Japan. PARIS, 1951 was nominated for the International Documentary Association (IDA) David L. Wolper Student Award.

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