In one continuous, twelve minute take, the filmmaker talks with his mother about her daughter who was killed in Auschwitz. Jack Haber is a film about unheralded lives. Utilizing film material found and purchased in an antique shop, the filmmaker speculates on the life of one, Jack Haber. The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard. A film which reflects the filmmaker's relationship with his deceased father, a man who survived both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz.
Dialogue is in both English and Yiddish.
A 20th century traveler comes to Japan and is confronted by a landscape, its inhabitants and cultural traditions quite different from his own experiences. Shot in the summer, 1987.