Lydia Leiber

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Geist Zeit is a visual poem about loss, fragmented memory, and transcendental womanhood. Captured on 16mm, this short, experimental film speaks through the contemplative reflections of a girl mourning her grandmother. We travel with her on a physical journey that mirrors the stages of grief and the cycle of life after death. Surrounding her in nature and lingering in the objects and clothes that are left behind, she wonders if our artifacts grant us all something close to an eternal life.

When disillusioned 23-year-old Sunny visits her hometown in coastal Massachusetts for a summer weekend to babysit her estranged half-sister, a precocious 10-year-old artist, she comes face to face with her past and is tested by the path she has chosen to follow into adulthood.