Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007)
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Harun Farocki
Alfredo Mendes
Jose Alberto Silva
Isabel Cardoso
Arlindo Semedo
Aneonio Semedo
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Three shorts films made by three different European filmmakers. The first, "Respite", is composed of silent archival footage from Westerbork (Holland), a transit camp from which Jews were deported to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz. Desiring to make a documentary about this place in 1941, SS officer Gemmeker had a German Jewish prisoner film his fellows inmates. The images reveal that they can have many interpretations. "The Rabbit Hunters" describes daily life in Fonthainas, a crumbling district in the suburbs of Lisbon. It follows the life of the inhabitants, immigrants from Cape Verde who hope for a better quality of life. Finally, in "Correspondences," Virgile and Blanche, both seventeen, send e-mails to one another from their respective bedrooms. The young man has only seen the young woman once, but has fallen madly in love with her. He uses email to relay his feelings to her.
Cast
Alfredo Mendes
Jose Alberto Silva
Isabel Cardoso
Arlindo Semedo
Aneonio Semedo
Delphine Hecquet
Francois Riviere
Christelle Prot
Cltment Cogitore
Crew
Olivier Blanc
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa
Martine De Clermont-tonnerre
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki
Eugene Green
Hugo Leitao
Raphael O'byrne
Vasco Pedroso
Frtdtric De Ravignan
Fabrice Rouaud
Patricia Saramago
Alessandro Vuillermin
Film Details
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the the Silver Leopard Special Jury Prize (International Competition) at the 2007 Locarno International Film Festival.
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (International Competition) August 1-11, 2007.
DV
color and b&w
dialogue Portuguese and French
