I present here the reader the full text -words and Closed Caption my film, Shoah.
On the screen, the subtitles are inessential. Gather, however, in a book, record, page by page, this succession of pure moments in the film that keep the scansion imposed by the filmic order, forces them to happen, however, the inessential to the essential; gives them, suddenly, a different statute, a different dignity and something like a seal of eternity. There have to be alone to fend for themselves, without any indication of staging, without an image, without a face, without a landscape, without a tear, without a pause, without the nine and a half hours of cinema that constitute Shoah.
Incredulous, I read and reread this moribund and naked text. A strange force it travels from one to the other; he resists, he lives on his own life. It is the writing of the disaster and, for me, this is ...read more
