Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW002786 Documentary |
Country / Year |
Germany, 1997 |
Original Title |
Persistence |
Other Title(s) |
Ausdauer (German) |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Daniel Eisenberg Films, Chicago, IL |
Staff |
Script: Daniel Eisenberg; Text: Stig Dagerman, Daniel Eisenberg, Janet Flanner, Max Frisch; Camera: Daniel Eisenberg; Camera, var: Ingo Kratisch (Zweite Kamera); Editing: Daniel Eisenberg; Sound editing: Bonnie Daley; Sound: Ellen Rothenberg, Ingo Kratisch |
Length |
86' |
Format |
16mm/farbe/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 21 Feb 1997: Premiere, Berlin (47. Internationale Filmfestspiele, Delphi, 27. Internationales Forum des Jungen Films) |
Abstract |
PERSISTENCE is a meditation on the time just after a great historical event, about what is common to moments such as these, about the continous and discontinous threads of history. It was shot in 1991-1992 in Berlin and edited along with films shot by US Army Signal Corps cameramen in 1945-1946. Interspersed through these materials are filmic quotations from GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (1946/Roberto Rossellin). The texts are drawn from the notebooks of Max Frisch, Stig Dagerman, and Janet Flanner from the time just after WWII, and of Eisenberg's own journals, from his stay in Berlin 1991-1992. The film is about various kinds cinematic observation: personal, documentary, fictional modes of observation which, by necessity, shape our view of events. |
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