Catalan; Valencian (ca-ES)

Title

Ajornament

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Overview

Pel·lícula sense so que se situa al camp de concentració nazi holandès de Westerbork.

El 1944 el comandant del camp va encarregar una pel·lícula a un dels presoners per posar en relleu l’eficàcia econòmica del camp en un moment que aquest estava amenaçat per tancament.

Farocki recupera fragments d’aquest film corporatiu d’imatges pacífiques i, a través de les ressonàncies tràgiques que aquestes ens evoquen, ens exigeix una mirada crítica entorn del discurs audiovisual.

0h 40m

English (en-US)

Title

Respite

Taglines

Overview

Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after the occupation of Holland, its function was reversed by the Nazis and it became a 'transit camp.' In 1944, the camp commander commissioned a film, shot by a photographer, Rudolph Breslauer. “By exhuming the scattered fragments and traces of the phantom film (intertitle cards, ideas for the scenario, graphic elements), Harun Farocki inscribes the Dutch footage within the genre of the corporate film.

0h 40m

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