Synopsis —
3956 County Road 15 (Ellen Knechel) 2011 TRT: 26:00
3956 County Road 15 follows my grandmother and my family as they empty my
grandmother’s house in rural Indiana and prepare it for sale on the housing market. How
do you just get rid of a whole life’s worth of stuff? What is the emotional toll of
disposing? Of saving? Outside my grandmother’s house, changes in the Indiana farmland
reflect the turmoil within. Time marches on in violent bursts and gentle shifts.
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Bio —
Ellen Knechel is a recent graduate of Temple University’s Film and Media Arts
department. She has made movies on subjects ranging from the Israeli Palestinian
conflict to a noir-ish art film about a vacuum cleaner in the crevices of a dirty basement.
Ellen is currently collaborating on three different documentaries in progress: one about a West Philly Lakota Indian, another about foraging for mushrooms, and a third about
money. She also holds a BA in English from Haverford College. Before deciding to
pursue filmmaking, she worked at an NGO in Honduras and taught in a middle school.
