The Secret Story
1996, English. Directed by Janie Geiser.
THE SECRET STORY arose as a response to several beautifully decayed toy figures from the 1930s that were given to me as a gift. These figures, and other toys, objects, and illustrations that I found from the period between the world wars, suggested a kind of unearthed hidden narrative which I have attempted to re-piece together, as if these figures were the hieroglyphics of a just-forgotten tongue. THE SECRET STORY revolves around the central figure of the woman, and her girl-double, who look somewhat like a versions of Snow White. She wanders through landscapes of rivers and floods, home and war, and memory and illness, culminating in an ecstatic walk in the forest, suggesting both the dark and cathartic trajectories of the richest fairy tales.
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- 0h 8m
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- 1 January 1996
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The Secret Story isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1996. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Secret Story?
The Secret Story (1996) was directed by Janie Geiser.