MEMORIES
Director Harun Farocki, Eugène Green, Pedro Costa /
2007
/ South Korea, Germany, Portugal, France
Originally created for the Jeonju International Film Festival's Digital Project, Memories is a short film triptych from three very different European directors.
German Harun Farocki's Respite is an original take on the Holocaust using black and white footage of inmates at a concentration camp.
Portuguese Pedro Costa's The Rabbit Hunters sees a group of friends from the Fontainhas community in Lisbon find that their past, their families and their work remain only a memory.
In Correspondences, from US-born, French-based director Eugène Green, an internet love affair begins between a forthcoming young Parisian and a sheltered young woman, but a memory from her past still stands in the way.
D Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa, Eugène Green P Martin de Clermont Tonnerre WS Jeonju International Film Festival L English, Portuguese, French TD digibeta/2007/102mins