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A Victim's Perspective

>> A silent work about the Auschwitz Death March in order to keep the remembrance to the 20.000 victims of this march alive.

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III, July-August 2005

WOW
pictures say more then words.

Above you will find four photo's of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco where 'A Victim's Perspective' had its international premiere.

FCJSP (link)

I am very proud to inform you that from the 9th till the 14th the South American premiere of 'A Victim's Perspective' will take place at the 9º FESTIVAL DE CINEMA JUDAICO DE SÃO PAULO.

VIDEO-INSTALAÇÃO
perspectiva da vítima
A Victim’s Perspective, Holanda e Polônia,
2005
660 min.
vídeo digital
memória, cor, mudo

DIREÇÃO
Erik Van Loon

SINOPSE
O renomado artista plástico holandês Erik Van Loon percorreu a pé os 74 quilômetros que separam Auschwitz da estação ferroviária de Wodzislaw, com uma câmara colada ao corpo. A experiência foi realizada no começo de 2005 para lembrar os sessenta anos da evacuação do campo de extermínio de Auschwitz diante do avanço soviético – uma marcha forçada que resultou na morte de cerca de vinte mil prisioneiros fragilizados pelo terrível regime do campo e pelos rigores do inverno polonês.

SFJFF (link)

The North American premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival was, despite some small problems (see next paragraph Computer Requirements) really great as thousands could experience the death march route which I walked in January 2005, exactly 60 years later. Personally I spoke three persons whose relative had marched this route and I am sure that at least a tenfold cold tell me comparable personal stories about the Death march.

COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS

In reply to some small computer problems 'A Victim's Perspective' will be issued now on a PC and MAC compatible hard disk with additional the following freeware software MV2 Player for PC and VLC Mediaplayer for MAC to play automatically the 6 different parts of 'A Victim's Perspective' after eachother.

CPU	PC	MAC
OS	XP 2nd edition	X for 10.2 or higher
Software	MV2 Player	VLC Mediaplayer
Video	dvd player*	dvd player*
Connection	firewire 1.0 (IEEE 1394)	firewire 1.0
Electricity	100-240 v	100-240 v
Socket	US plug (adapter required)	US plug (adapter required)

* a PC or MAC with a dvd player will have a sufficient video card as 'A Victim's Perspective' will not work on a CPU without a decent video card.

MORE SCREENINGS:

- Seattle Jewish Film Festival MARCH 11th - 19th 2006 (link)

I regret that I still haven't found a screen for "A Victim's Perspective" in Africa, Asia and Australia. Help is required.

FREE

Some of you know that I originally made "A Victim's Perspective" as study object for the freedom ballet FREE (www.vrijheidsballet.com). Which should have its premiere at 15 August 2005 when all citizens in the world celebrate the official end of World War II as the Japanese Emperor capitulat. Unfortunately I can't realize FREE at the moment due to a lack of funding.

Part II WAR

Short introduction

WAR opens with the 'Leningrad Symphony' of D. Shostakovich. Instead of the mirror black and white photos about World War II are beamed on the wall. We see four dancers in black uniforms (Nazi's) and after a few minutes four new dancers in green uniforms (Allies) enter the the stage.

All Modern dancers carry the same mask. They represent anonymous soldiers who eventually all die. Like in each war there are no winners. When a dancer dies, a beam of light with a hook in it comes down from heaven. The dying dancer hangs his mask and uniform on the hook, spreads his forearms like a cross and gets raised upon his knees. Whereupon the soul (uniform and mask) leave the body. The last two dancers are well-matched and after an exhausting life-and-death duet they kill each other. Finally, the eight killed dancers form a military cemetery.