'Thelma' comes from the series 'The Realm of Forgotten Existence' created during Piotr Piasta's residency in Berwick upon Tweed. Piasta has spent time with older people in Berwick, listening to stories about life in the town and using this to inform a series of oral history interviews with older people – many who have lived in Berwick all their life. While the images in the films reveal a landscape that often seems unchanged, the narrative reveals fragments of forgotten stories and traditions, skills and working lives no longer of value in today’s society.
Reviews
It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.