{"id":1123,"date":"2015-05-25T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogatchi.org\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2020-08-31T03:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T03:42:36","slug":"the-shock-of-the-beauty-new-review-on-the-inna-rogatchis-the-lessons-of-survival-film-by-pamela-clements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rogatchifoundation.org\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"“The Shock of the Beauty” – New Review on the Inna Rogatchi’s The Lessons of Survival Film by Pamela Clements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shock of the Beauty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Lessons of Survival. Conversations with Simon Wiesenthal<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Created and Directed by Inna Rogatchi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Pamela Clements (C)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sydney, Australia \u2013 May 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw Inna Rogatchi’s film The Lessons of Survival. Conversations with Simon Wiesenthal<\/em> at the Jewish International Film Festival in Sydney in March. It stays with me still – the beauty of this extraordinary film, the shock of the beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Wiesenthal set up his office in the former Nazi headquarters in Vienna. There! The fear evoked by that idea almost takes one’s breath away, the courage of the idea makes one want to cheer, to exult in Jewish survival. All that force, cruelty, calculation, war machinery, suffering, and now Simon Wiesenthal can base his search for justice against the perpetrators right at their core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inna positioned her camera over the stair in the former Nazi headquarters, looking down. Architectural, symmetrical, painterly and breathtakingly beautiful in colour, light and form, this frame creates a beautiful and terrifying vortex, down which one felt one’s self inexorably drawn and hurtled into oblivion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Wiesenthal’s face, as he was interviewed by Inna, and the brief shot of young Inna deeply listening to Wiesenthal \u2013 these were beautiful, painterly, profound moments in the film. The film’s photography, composition, lighting, colour, pacing is beautiful, even in the camps. I felt almost “blasted” as I experienced the beauty of this film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so at the Q & A after the film, I asked Inna: “Can you speak to us about the beauty of your film?” How could a film about such horrors be inspired, created and manifested in beauty? Inna’s answer: “That is the point.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t miss this film. Allow yourself to experience the film’s beauty as well as its historical significance, and to feel the presence of Simon Wiesenthal and honour his remarkable courage and achievement. Open yourself to “The Point”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rating: 5\/5 (or whatever the top rating is).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pamela Clement is internationally recognised architectural acoustic consultant, specialising in musicology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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