1974 | United States | Short

Dachau 1974

  • English - 23 mins
  • Director | Beryl Korot
  • Writer | Beryl Korot
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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Dachau 1974 was recorded on Korot’s visit to Dachau, Germany, the site of the former concentration camp, in the Fall of 1974. What she saw when she arrived was a sanitized former prisoner camp that was now a tourist site. Organizing the material she recorded at the camp for a four-channel work based on weaving structures, she created a non-verbal narrative work that moves the viewer from outside the camps walls, into barracks, past crematoria, to a quiet pastoral scene in its final images. This 24-minute work focuses on the architecture that remains from the past and the tourists moving through it. The artist has described this as a fragile work in that it relies on human memory and the structure of the work itself to endow it with meaning.

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