THREE SONGS

In THREE SONGS Laura Taler braids singing, gesture and the language of filmmaking in a non-narrative approach to storytelling. Rotted in her personal history of leaving Romania as a child, the film explores familial ties, loss, and duality by tracing how displacement reverberates through voice, body, and place. Appearing as her doppelgänger, Taler performs three songs: a Romanian song in a German forest; an Argentine tango in her late grandmother’s house in Romania; and a Yiddish song, Romania Romania, staged within Berlin’s historic Theatre im Delphi and the Gipsformerei, one of the world’s largest plaster-cast replica workshops. Shaped by personal history and catalyzed by the current refugee crisis, THREE SONGS examines the condition of foreignness and the fraught relations between language, untranslatability, loss, and mourning. The work reflects on the reshaping of identity, asking how one might make a home elsewhere and negotiate what has been left behind, while imagining and creating new futures.