Transits: essayistic thinking at the junctures of images in Harun Farocki's "Respite" and Arnaud des Pallieres's "Drancy Avenir"

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