Face aux fantomes
Director Jean-Louis Comolli, Sylvie Lindeperg
Countries France
Duration 109 min
Synopsis
In this film as in the book "Nuit et Brouillard, un Film dans l’Histoire" but this time via images and sounds, Sylvie Lindeperg questions the complex play of influences that led to the production of "Night and Fog" and which weighed on the film’s destiny. Her artistic practice and this film in particular are viewed as a close examination of the contradictions of a period. The archive images from the concentration camps and the death camps reused in "Night and Fog" still raise questions about their legitimacy, the suffering they bear, the challenge they present to the viewer’s or user’s desires or possibilities of seeing.
In this film as in the book "Nuit et Brouillard, un Film dans l’Histoire" but this time via images and sounds, Sylvie Lindeperg questions the complex play of influences that led to the production of "Night and Fog" and which weighed on the film’s destiny. Her artistic practice and this film in particular are viewed as a close examination of the contradictions of a period. The archive images from the concentration camps and the death camps reused in "Night and Fog" still raise questions about their legitimacy, the suffering they bear, the challenge they present to the viewer’s or user’s desires or possibilities of seeing.