Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin I 2018 | UK I 83 min | Digital

Based on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. A voice, enigmatic and sometimes uncertain, foretells of, relates and recalls the routine processes of injustice and their legacy: the creation of a diaspora of household objects, scattered amongst buildings that no longer exist. As the camera probes the secrets of ordinary spaces, streets and buildings around the city of Berlin, semblances of a person and a history begin to emerge and coalesce. This experimental essay film explores the space between documentary and fiction.

Four Parts of a Folding Screen is the second in a loose trilogy of films focused on different members of the same family during the early years of the Nazi regime. The two other films in the trilogy, The View from Our House (2013) and Alarm Notes (2025) will screen at Close-Up Cinema on Sunday 3 May and Sunday 17 May.

The screening of Four Parts of a Folding Screen will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.