SwastikaAustralian filmmaker Philippe Mora's impressionistic tour of Nazi culture has remained virtually unseen since its premiere at Cannes and subsequent ban in Germany in 1973.
The film was made possible when Mora uncovered a wealth of German newsreels, propaganda footage and rare colour home movies of Adolf Hitler's banal home life (shot by Eva Braun) held in the Pentagon's archives.
The screening on Saturday 10th of July will be introduced by a special guest speaker.
"In reality, Swastika, though perhaps difficult to take, is the most potent of anti-Nazi films, simply because it shows us what people seem to be intent on forgetting, a lesson that cannot be learned too often. That Adolph Hitler and friends were not devils or robot clones, but everyday, even banal folks who in their at-ease moments are indistinguishable from the rest of us. Which would make what they did just that much more obscene." Washington Post
"...tightly edited together so as to give the impression that Mora had sent a documentary team back 40 years into the Reich. The home movies make it seem as if Andy Warhol tagged along too." Time Magazine
