Amijima
55'
Spain
IFFR 2017
The camps have been created for different reasons: a German prosecution office has designed a simulation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in order to investigate a 94-year-old defendant; a 27-year-old software developer from Israel is inspired by his belief in reincarnation to reconstruct his previous life as a Sonderkommando through a virtual exploration of his own camp-based computer game; and a German architect who has been surveying the camp for 15 years is working together with an Israeli historian on a highly accurate computerized model.
The film is constructed as a mosaic in which the avatars of each of these creators walk around the virtual camps and talk about them. As they do so, they gradually reveal a deeper layer of the film: the obsession of reconstructing the 'Other Planet' – the insatiable urge to document and enrich the historical and cultural memory of the Holocaust. (Amir Yatziv)
IFFR 2017
Programme IFFR 2017
55'
Spain
IFFR 2017
48'
Germany
IFFR 2017
59'
Belgium
IFFR 2017