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Distant Journey Through the Desktop (2020)
Directed by Jiří Anger, Jiří Žák
· 13m
Alfréd Radok’s essay film Distant Journey (Daleká cesta, 1948) is a canonical classic of Czech cinema and a still unique answer to the question of how to express the inexpressible horrors of the Holocaust. However, such a self-reflexive film also needs a film theory that would extend this reflexivity in a videographic form, by means of using the images and sounds themselves and the context in which they appear in the digital space. The film’s “trick montage,” a technique that links storyline moments with archival footage of war destruction, Nazi emblems, and anti-Jewish terror within a single film shot, is thereby translated into the desktop interface and rethought anew.
Crew
- Director
- Jiří Anger, Jiří Žák
Details
- Release date
- 2020-03-22
- Runtime
- 13m
- Original language
- EN