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MEMORIES Total Runtime: 102m Respite Harun Farocki, 40m The Rabbit Hunters Pedro Costa, 23m Correspondences Eugène Green, 39m from the Jeonju International Film Festival Digital Project, South Korea, 2007 “Harun Farocki’s Respite is made up of silent archival footage from Westerbork (Holland), a transit camp from which Jews were deported to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz. Wanting to make a documentary about this place in 1941, SS officer Gemmeker had a German Jewish prisoner film, on 16 mm, sequences of men at work, at leisure (!) and the trains as they left for the death camps. As a reference to silent cinema, the filmmaker has inserted descriptive and informative title cards between scenes. He also slips in his own comments on different ways of reading the images. Both propaganda and a cry of distress, the film is an account of people under a death sentence… Pedro Costa’s The Rabbit Hunters describes daily life in Fonthainas, a crumbling district in the suburbs of Lisbon where the director has already shot three previous films. He follows the life of the inhabitants, immigrants from Cape Verde who hope for a better future, employing his usual approach of filming whatever passes in front his camera, minimizing his intervention in the events. In Eugène Green’s Correspondences, Virgile and Blanche, both 17, exchange e-mails from their respective bedrooms. The young man has seen the young woman only once, but has fallen madly in love with her.”—Jeonju Film Festival

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