One Jew, Two Jew, Old Jew, Young Jew
Imagine your grandmother riding a dolphin. Now imagine her doing a summer-salt. Competing on the Food Network's Halloween Wars. Being a firefighter. Being TikTok famous. Performing on America's Got Talent. Murdering your grandfather because he wont take out the trash. Wait, now go back to the one before that. In Death Metal Grandma , Leah Galant, a young but experienced documentary producer and director, examines what drives Inge Ginsburg, a 96 year old women, to produce death metal music for stages as large as America's Got Talent. The short film is mainly comprised of (1) time in the studio displaying the creative process, (2) time outside of the studio showing Inge's unfiltered self, and (3) a pervasive narrative, overlaying them both, adding meaning to Inge's struggles and serving as an expression of Inge's perspective. The film suggests, and Inge admits, that at the center of her motivation is the idea of curbing the consequences of old age such as m...