Damaged Visions

Damaged Visions

Production country: 
us
Year: 
1991
Duration: 
9'
Edition: 
1993
Format: 
film/video

This very personal tape reflects Gorewitz' visit to Eastern Europe in June 1990. He collected images in Sighet (Romania), where his grandparents lived and his mother was born, and in Auschwitz and Budapest. Using specialized computer visualization systems with his original Video 8 footage, Gorewitz achieves a powerul synthesis of past and future in each of these locations. The Gulf War becomes contextualized by a quotation from the Bible: "They have healed the wounds of my people lightly, saying, 'peace, peace' , when there is no peace."

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