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The video documentation represents the most
central aspect of MEMORY Project. Kinéo (Italy), Ignition Films (United Kingdom),
Austrian Visual Memory (Austria), Filmwerkstatt Munster (Germany), S.M.ART Art Media (Greece)
and Vidéo Les Beaux Jours (France) are six associations that have for years been putting audio-visual language at the service of social communication, didactics and historical memory. The six associations, from six different European nations, will realise twelve digital video interviews each, basing themselves on the testimonials of just as many witnesses of the Second World war. This initiative will lead to the creation of an impressing archive of seventy-two interviews in which the different faces, languages and accounts blend and integrate to compose a unique picture of untold value. Seventy-two points of view and seventy-two different perspectives upon history, with all the dynamic force that a succession of words, pauses and personal accounts are capable of generating, stretching out as one long tale. Through the images of the intensely drawn and serious faces in the foreground, one is able to witness the returning of memories, to read authentic maps of remembrances and to identify their landscapes of emotions.
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