From Where They Stood shines a light on secretly taken photos to help us remember
From Where They Stood by Christophe Cognet
For some fifteen years now,
Christophe Cognet has been working on pictures taken in secret and at risk of death by deportees in Nazi camps. And after the drawings and watercolours of
Parce que j’étais peintre (revealed in the Cinema XXI section of Rome Film Fest 2013), it is these very photos which form the focus of Cognet’s second documentary feature
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In Dachau, Buchenwald, Mittelbau-Dora, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, a number of deportees managed to take clandestine photos of their surrounds. Given the great efforts that these women and men went to in order to pass these images on to us, we owe it to them to take a look, and this is the subject-matter explored by the filmmaker, which he has also set out in a book by the name of
12/02/2021 - Christophe Cognet’s second feature film – produced by L’Atelier Documentaire and sold by mk2 Films - will world premiere at the Berlinale Forum