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When our eyes are closed. Clandestin Art in Buchenwald

A film by Christophe Cognet

 

From 1937 to April 1945, in the Buchenwald - Dora - Kommandos concentration camps complexe, more than twenty artists-deportees managed to secretly draw their living conditions.This is the work this documentary would like to examine: the conditions of its creation, the images it represents, the struggles it portrays and its circulation since that time. And quite simply to show it as a whole for the first time since the liberation of the camps, letting people see it in all its intricacy, confronting it with other pictures of these camps ; exhibiting it alongside what is left to see, there, in the remains of the camp ; searching for it too, in the places where it has been preserved – scattered, we should say - now.

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Co-production: 
Tigon Film Distributors LTD, Citizen TV
Crédits: 
With drawings of Bata ( ou Baxa), Léon Delarbre, Auguste Favier, José Fosty, Gaston Gentillon, Paul Goyard, Roman Jefimenko, Karol Konieczny, Jacques Lamy, Pierre Mania, Henri Pieck, René Salme, Herbert
Partnerships: 
CNC, Ministère de la Défense, Procirep et Angoa. Participation de TV5 Monde Monde.
Duration: 
52 min

Available formats: 
Languages: 
Français
Anglais
12€
 
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