Transits: essayistic thinking at the junctures of images in Harun Farocki's "Respite" and Arnaud des Pallieres's "Drancy Avenir"
TitleTransits: essayistic thinking at the junctures of images in Harun Farocki's "Respite" and Arnaud des Pallieres's "Drancy Avenir"
Author
Call number791.43658/0009
Object number10784c
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherLegenda
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionpp66-83
MaterialArticle
Series titleMoving Image (Modern Humanities Research Association)
NotesArticle from the book '' Holocaust intersections. Genocide and visual culture at the new millennium'' pp66-83
Description
Discusses a rich and recently flourishing kind of filmmaking enquiry into the Holocaust, which she labels essay film. It uses two essayistic film enquiries into and re-evocations of, sites of Holocaust transit and transition - the camps of Westerbork in the Netherlands, and Drancy near Paris - to show the fragility of the essay form