France, Germany 2021, 108 minby Christophe Cognet
As men and women desperately attempted to pass images of hell on to us, we have a duty to look at them. From these unprecedented photographs, taken secretly by deportees at the risk of their lives, we are bound to wonder how we could imagine the events of which they bear the incomplete and fleeting traces. This film is putting together an archeology of images as actions, conducting a worried exploration of the capacity and lack of the human imagination when confronted to the most dismal darkness
From Where They Stood
Germany 2013, 104 minby Christophe Cognet
"I hardly dare say it, but for a painter, the beauty of it was incredible. It was absolutely necessary to reproduce, represent and show it, in order to preserve it for the future." ( Zoran Music, survivor from Dachau) The film conducts an unprecedented investigation of secretely created artworks in Nazi concentration and death camps. It converses with the rare handful of living artists who survived the camps and with those who curate their art: about the emotions the works conjure, their margin
BECAUSE I WAS A PAINTER
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