“Non-sites of memory”: Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakes
This article analyses some of the 30 hours of location footage excluded from Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 Holocaust documentary Shoah. Although there has been some analysis of the outtake material in Lanzmann’s archive which consists of eyewitness interviews, very little attention has been paid to the foo...
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| description | This article analyses some of the 30 hours of location footage excluded from Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 Holocaust documentary Shoah. Although there has been some analysis of the outtake material in Lanzmann’s archive which consists of eyewitness interviews, very little attention has been paid to the footage of landscape, urban and camp settings, from which we have drawn these examples of Polish sites. We argue that it is possible to discern the presence of a specifically spatial memory by considering this excluded material in a way that draws on its outtake status, that is, its form of 11-minute reels unaccompanied by eyewitness presence or voiceover. The filmic construction of spaces to suit Lanzmann’s concerns is revealed if we attend to this material in its unedited state, with its constituent repetitions and exclusions, as a spatial version of the director’s customary interest in the reincarnation of the past in the present. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1bafda1478d64aa5ab238c95e11fd7c82022-12-22T01:10:25ZengUniversity College CorkAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media2009-40782021-08-01213554https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.21.02“Non-sites of memory”: Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakesSue Vice 0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-7739Dominic Williams1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7387-8928University of SheffieldUniversity of NorthumbriaThis article analyses some of the 30 hours of location footage excluded from Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 Holocaust documentary Shoah. Although there has been some analysis of the outtake material in Lanzmann’s archive which consists of eyewitness interviews, very little attention has been paid to the footage of landscape, urban and camp settings, from which we have drawn these examples of Polish sites. We argue that it is possible to discern the presence of a specifically spatial memory by considering this excluded material in a way that draws on its outtake status, that is, its form of 11-minute reels unaccompanied by eyewitness presence or voiceover. The filmic construction of spaces to suit Lanzmann’s concerns is revealed if we attend to this material in its unedited state, with its constituent repetitions and exclusions, as a spatial version of the director’s customary interest in the reincarnation of the past in the present.http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue21/HTML/ArticleViceWilliams.htmlclaude lanzmannpolandshoahouttakesspatial memory |
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