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responsibility for the children and the land following the death of the parents. The film’s producer, Raymond Chavez, is, like Miss Currier, making his debut with Heart of the Garden.
“It was learning by doing,” Miss Currier recalled. “So many people do films because they’re in love with the medium, with the glamour and power of film. I had something to say and had to find the means for saying it. I think that’s a good way of doing a film —to be driven by the strength of what you have to say.”
On one level, Heart of the Garden is a Southern story of plantationstyle living — elegiac, romantic, slow-paced.
Isolated in her artificial paradise, the child Nora shares the South’s obsession with the land and what it represents — past and family. She’s content to stay there, protected and guarded by the devoted Nimrod. But a mysterious stranger leads her to question whether her garden world —filmed at the Currier family’s 1,500-acre Kinloch Farm near The Plains — is the only world worth knowing.
On another level, Miss Currier’s film is a story of childhood’s end and the struggle to cut the ties to family and home. “And it’s about how a child sees death,” the author and director explained. “Death is even difficult for an adult to understand. For a child, it’s impossible.”
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community, which will sponsor an evening showing of Heart of the Garden at the Gay Street Theater in Washington, Va., also has scheduled a‘ special afternoon screening for1 area school children.
“It’s good for children to see this,” Miss Currier maintained. “All children have a fear of abandonment. It’s always in the back of a child’s mind — what would happen if their parents ^disappeared.
“It’s the most frightening danger in their world. The death of their parents takes all their references away.”
Seeing the film, confronting that unnamed fear and knowing that it’s shared, will lessen the terror, Miss Currier believes.
At present, the director is commuting between her home in Fauquier and New York City.
“We started shooting a week ago,” she said, adding tihat her newest project is a documentary about two people: Father Berry, a priest and philosopher in the Hudson Val
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