2012 Non - Competition - Experimental shorts from SHOAH FILM COLLECTION


Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw
Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... A story about three generations of Anita Graetz’s German Jewish family, which survived underground in and around Berlin, Germany. Experiences of family Graetz are depicted from six-year-old Anita’s point of view. The film is a hand-painted, stop-motion animation.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... Anne Frank discusses the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice’s attempt to ascent from Hades. Her response is both emotional and philosophical. She tries to understand how one human can let another down and all in the name of love.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... „Capacity” is a film metaphor, which presents what has been and what can continue to be the evil potential inherent in all us. Abstract processed video as well as the emotional musical composition influence the beauty of this picture.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... In nature it is impossible for shapes to be immutable, lasting. This is also the case of a man. When a tragedy like Shoah takes place, the man cannot hold its status of human being. The film presents a changeability of human body shapes. Finally the body disappears. There remains only a little spot of red that cannot be erased even by nature. Maybe a spot of human lasts? Even if so, only in memories.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... This is a free adaptation of Primo Levi’s book “Survival in Auschwitz. The Nazi Assault on Humanity”. The film relates to the theme: memory, tragedy and truth, recalling Primo Levi’s words which call on people to never forget, to always see what had happened. Water, leaves and tree are the metaphor of memories, which similar to those three elements exist if man will not destroy them.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... „Mamo” was filmed with mobile phone. The film brings senses and memories of motherhood evoked by visiting concentration camp Birkenau (Auschwitz II).

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... The video work „Matka” is made for the „Shoah” project. The video has no words

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... Once a year five friends meet in a different place of the world for one day to play memory game. In 2010 they meet at the Memorial for the Murdered Jews in Europe in Berlin. This place is the middle of a mind map of a countless number of strings.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... Intriguing story about survivors. Three main characters: man, crow and dog are lost in a snowscape.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... A presentation of 57 German words the author of the film knows, in order in which she remembered them. They betray something of her ethnicity (Jewish), nationality (Greek), age (57), politics (left), cultural identity (artist), and education (professor).

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... Anne Frank and Sigismund Freud discuss a case of a third party who has undergone an abduction that transformed her sexuality. The author together with her father, a psychiatrist, play main characters. Their discussion make improvised reactions to a fictional narrative involving Alice in Wonderland being abducted by aliens.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... A touching story based on one family’s Holocaust experience. In the film there are presented ten cutout drawings executed between 1990 and 1993 by the film’s author and her father. The series is titled “Nowhere to go” as all efforts to get her father’s parents out of the concentration camp were to no avail.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... A walk around the National Dachau monument, which is a memorial to the Dutch victims of the Dachau concentration camp.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... The film refers to the author’s videotaping survivors of the Shoah in the late 1990’s. “This is a recording” is recomposed from the author’s family albums and sound recordings. In this post-memory work sound and visual pieces explore erasures of memory.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... This film is encouraging victims to take part in discussion. It persuades those silent/silenced to speak, gives them voice. Their voice may strongly influence lives of other people. Maybe receivers will find the hint about strategies for survival.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... In concentration camps people were murdered by putting into gas chambers, which looked like baths. To avoid panic the appearance of taking a shower was maintained. The film shows such a “bath”. In “Undressing room” there were used original materials from the camps filmed in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

Kinoteka Movie Theater, PKiN Pl. Defilad 1, Warsaw: ... This film serves as a light to remember and honor to over six million Jews murdered between 1939 and 1945. The fire and fragmentation of glass recall the violent pogroms against the Jewish people across the Europe.