1941年,德国佔领苏联位于东欧的大片领地,一波大屠杀于6月29日罗马尼亚雅西县首府爆发。是日,超过一万名犹太人或遭枪杀、或乘火车遭系统性杀害。事发至今近80年,这群人的形影与声音因时移事往而模糊,什么样的形式才能让证人陈述、审判证词,让受难者的声线被清晰听闻?
哈都.裘德并未选择特定的个人视角、煽动的故事线、甚或惊人的美学,让观众直接找到廉价的同理或轻易的投射;相反地,他仅以极简形式的投放,展示一帧帧肖像、信件、照片与档案,仿若黑盒子裡被陈列与重播的展品,恳请观者瞻仰这系列的遗像与创痛,逐字循句地接收并咀嚼文件与证言,影厅恰似一座纪念馆,为歷史幽灵还魂附体,成为观众无从迴避且必须直视与听闻的实在。
In 1905, the sailors on the battleship Potemkin are given political asylum in Romania - an act of defiance against Russia. In 2021, a sculptor (Alexandru Dabija) wants to create an artwork inspired by the event. A comedy about art, history, memory and cinema, which film critic Andrei Gorzo describes as "a cross between a Caragiale sketch and a Mark Rappaport video essay".
Radu Jude has made a seven-minute self-portrait for the magazine report Kurzschluss (Short Circuit) by arte in cooperation with goEast Film Festival Wiesbaden (Germany).
Please also find an extensive Q&A with Radu Jude at the goEast website: filmfestival-goeast.de/en/goEast_online/online_in_discussion_with_radu_jude.php
In “Spaces #2”, 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine....