Searching for My Mother's Garden, 1992
12 min. 16mm film (film still by Barb Webb)
Footage shot in Ocova, Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1990
after the Velvet Revolution of peasant women who had worked
on the collective farms their whole lives.

Searching for My Mother's Garden, 1992
12 min. 16mm film (film still by Barb Webb)
Peasant women raking the hay being told what to
do by a young university-educated man.

Searching for My Mother's Garden, 1992
12 min. 16mm film (film still by Barb Webb)
View of the village of Ocova, Czechoslovakia in the distance.

Searching for My Mother's Garden, 1992
12 min. 16mm film (film still by Barb Webb)
Portrait of an 84-year-old peasant woman who
still was working on the collective farms.

Searching for My Mother's Garden, 1992
12 min. 16mm film (film still by Barb Webb)
Shortly after this photo was taken, the women's task was usurped by machines.

Searching for My Mother's Garden, 1992
12 min. 16mm film (film still by Bruno Martel)
Additional footage staged for the film in Ajax, Ontario. From left to right,
Mary Kovac, Sheryl-Ann Purcelle, Concetta Principe, Niki Pollard, and Antonia Miovska.