Jackie Farkas uses the extraordinary and harrowing oral testimony of an elderly Hungarian woman as the basis for a poetic and abstract investigation into how cinema can ‘illustrate’ such profoundly horrendous experiences. The use of found footage, elusive images of beauty and horror and sequences from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to elucidate the narrator’s memories creates an extraordinary representation of the holocaust experience, of survival, of home and memory, and of how we can comprehend the incomprehensible.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Previously on display
31 December 2004
ACMI Screen Lounge
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1001934
Language
English
Audience classifications
G (8+)
Mediatheque - all ages (ACMI classified)
Subject categories
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded