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When Klas Ehnemark’s estranged father is brutally murdered by his lover in the German village of Grosserlach, he’s asked to testify at the trial. To paint a picture of his father, a man he hardly knew, he travels back in time. He prepares his court address visually by sifting through photographs, home movies, and audio diaries to reveal a free spirit who chose a different way of living. Klas breathes life back into his father by visiting his house, the scene of the crime. He films himself seeing things for the fist time in an eerie evidentiary style, and match-cuts his footage to his father’s own self-recorded videos, occupying the same space as him, if only for a fleeting moment. The Great Liberty searches for a state of mind, the social and sexual freedom his father had been seeking his whole life and found only in death. Angie Driscoll

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