PARALYSIS - ON THE STATE OF TERROR

of SUCARI Jacobo

SPAIN, 2001, 00:45:00

Production : GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA - Departement de Cultura, SUCARI Jacobo
Genre : Documentary, Creative documentary
Keyword : Archive, Communication, History, Memory, Politics

Summary :
PARALYSIS - ON THE STATE OF TERROR is a documentary about our archiving and registering systems. It is about the use of images in the construction of our past.
Mental images in the case of memory; a personal and subjective archive about a unique historical experience the outburst of which generates that which we call "testimony".
As a counterpoint, there is the archived material as a mechanism/interface, which configures and proposes and "objective" past which impatiently waits in film libraries around the world.

Witness- a Nazi concentration camp survivor.
Investigator- he who searches for and analyses fingerprints of the past.
Archived Material- a source and prolongation of historic memory.
Narrator- he who creates and carries out the discourse where history impregnates present time thus becoming current.

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