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Postwar : the films of Daniel Eisenberg.
LIBRA DVD 019 225 discs 1-3 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Buildings.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- Buildings.
- City and town life.
- Night--Psychological aspects.
- Night.
- Social conditions.
- Dachau (Germany).
- Nazi concentration camps--Germany.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Internment camps--Germany.
- Internment camps.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Poland--Social conditions--20th century.
- Poland.
- Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
- France--Social conditions--20th century.
- France.
- Germany--History--Unification, 1990.
- History.
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Night work.
- City and town life--Illinois--Chicago.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Experimental films.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (208 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (71, [5] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Films of Daniel Eisenberg
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, [2011]
- Language Note:
- "Cooperation of parts" in English, German, French and Polish, with subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD ; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Displaced person": An experimental film that works with a carefully chosen set of particular elements in order to explore the larger questions within the historical field. Passages from a Beethoven string quartet established rhythm and breadth in relation to a radio interview with Claude Levi-Strauss, and archival footage obtained from rephotographing Marcel Ophul's "The Sorrow and the Pity." These elements wheel through many revolutions of repetitions and combinations, forming multiple perspectives.
- "Cooperation of parts": A journey of questions through signs, landscapes, memories and fixed meanings as Eisenberg travels through Europe, particularly through France, Germany, and Poland. He visits the death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. With a wide visual field for the complex set of narrative associations, the film spins a tight web of memory, history and experience.
- "Persistence": Shot in Berlin during the year of German Unification (1991-92), the film documents the change in landscape that accompanies historical rupture, and the ways in which the past informs our construction of the future.
- "Something more than night' is primarily shot in public spaces: airports, train stations, malls, downtown offices, industrial zones, and the many ethnic neighborhoods that make Chicago an exemplary city of migration at the beginning of the 21st Century. In contrast to the city-symphony films of the 1920's, whose utopian vision of the industrial age was a composition made from harmonies of light, this film describes the city with our own familiar senses of the night; informed by labor, boredom, fear, fatigue, and anticipation.
- Contents:
- Disc one. Displaced person (1981, 11 min., b&w)
- Cooperation of parts (1987, 40 min., col.)
- Disc two. Persistence (1997, 84 min., col.)
- Disc three. Something more than night (2003, 73 min., col.).
- Participant:
- "Persistence": Narrator, John Distefano.
- Credits:
- "Persistence": editor, Daniel Eisenberg ; cinematography, Daniel Eisenberg, Ingo Kratisch ; music, Ferrucio Busoni, Franco Donatoni, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi ; co-production, WDR-Köln.
- "Something more than night": editing, Holen Kahn, Daniel Eisenberg ; cinematography, Ingo Kratisch ; co-production, WDR-Köln.
- Notes:
- Originally released as 16 mm films.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Displaced person.
- Cooperation of parts.
- Persistence.
- Something more than night.
- OCLC:
- 765885914
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