Films by Jonas Katzenstein

Germany 2013, 104 min
by 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