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Shoah: Year Zero
27 August 2009 7:16 PM, PDT
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by Vadim Rizov
By any reasonable measure, Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) should've been the Year Zero of Holocaust documentaries. Not in the sense that it should've supplanted Night and Fog or made what came before irrelevant, but simply that it should've made some things clearer for those to follow. Like: don't use archival footage of the concentration camps. What little there is has been used and reused so extensively that it's been drained of any power, and to pretend otherwise is self-congratulation on the part of the viewer. And: the inherent gravity of your subject matter does not mean form gets to take a walk in the park. It's the opposite: great tragedy demands great artfulness if it's not to be trivialized. There is nothing respectful about being "hands-off" or "letting the material speak for itself"; it could just be coasting on good intentions.
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