Monday, March 17, 2014
"The Flat": filmmaker's late grandmother's apartment in Israel unveils a family secret regarding a member of the SS
Documentary filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger finds that his own family
generates an intriguing story after his grandmother dies in Tel Aviv at age
98. As the autobiographical film "The Flat" begins,.the family moves in, ready to sort
through the apartment and dispose of tremendous amounts of stuff. I wonder if this will happen when I am
gone. People who live alone often do set
up mysteries for others to plow through after their gone. In my case, that would include a digital
legacy.
Pretty soon Arnon unpeels the onion layers of his
grandmother’s life, he discovers that his
grandparents had a friendship with German SS officer Leopold Midlenstein even
before World War II. He travels to
Holland and Germany, where the film ends in a cemetery in a thunderstorm. On a personal level, were members of the Nazi
establishment always “bad people”? Perhaps
the film anticipates the idea behind Stephen Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”.
The official site is here. The 2011 film can be rented on YouTube
(through IFC) for $2.99, or from Netflix.
The film is in English, Hebrew, and German.
For today’s short film, I recommend “Travel Inside a Black
Hole” on YouTube (10 min), here, I don’t know who the speaker is. It’s hard
to summarize what he says. It’s all
relative. Perhaps at death one’ soul
goes inside a black hole and time stops, and one can “see” everything just
before going in.
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