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#1 INDUSTRY CHOICE DOCUMENTARY BBC Film Network (2006)
Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Hartford
Jewish Film Festival
(2009)
CNEX
Documentary Film Festival (2008)
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St. Y Tribeca/ Heeb Film Festival (2008)
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Glasgow
filmmaker Jes Benstock brings a wry, quizzical voice and a surprising
mix of animation and live action to consider the contemporary legacy of
the Holocaust in Poland.
A whistle-stop
tour from Auschwitz hot-dogs to Krakow's kitsch Judaica that asks: how
is dark tourism changing history?
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"An experimental
and powerful documentary look at the tourism industry that’s grown
up in Poland in the wake of Spielberg’s Schindler’s
List."
- Philip Ilson, Co-Director Halloween Short Film Festival, London
"Benstock
has assembled an impressive set of interviewees, from a sculptor who laments
the commercialisation of his craft, to professor of the faith and member
of the Auschwitz committee Jonathan Webber and several people who work
and maintain Auschwitz. Each paints a bleak picture of a tragedy, if not
forgotten, then diminished somehow... Benstock
cleverly mixes animation and live footage to hold the attention... and
the use of quick cuts between kitsch ornaments, people smiling for the
camera under the infamous Arbeit Machs Frei sign and letting
children run about without a thought for those on a true pilgrimage of
remembrance shine a startling light on our ignorance."
-Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film
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