Films by Maya Schweizer

Germany 2021, 18 min
by Maya Schweizer

It opens in the dark, in a corridor; water is flowing ... Voices echo in these sewer tunnels; it is the abyss of Munich, under the river Isar. The voices tell fragments of stories: about vanished people, violence, memory loss – while the camera is now above ground, scanning the city‘s façades, including those of the ‘Third Reich‘. The city appears as a body winding its way through time, past and present. Like a thread through memories, a spiral runs through it: a shell, a whirlpool, the turn of

Germany 2021, 38 min
by Clemens von Wedemeyer, Maya Schweizer, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer

Shown in the main exhibition of the Dachau Memorial Site, „The Concentration Camp Dachau” is an overview film relating the history of the Dachau camp and its aftermaths from 1945 to today. Along with this historical dimension, the film also addresses a central question: “How we can ever imagine – and convey through images – what took place? The film invites viewers to consider this complex issue together.