① memo 20170722 ~ Camp Westerbork Filmed ~ In the mail today the dutch book “Kamp Westerbork gefilmd” published in 1997 (ISBN 9023232658) – that I bought secondhand – detailing how the Westerbork concentration camp (in Holland) was filmed by the jewish prisoner filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer and coworkers, and what happened with his rushes later.
The 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Anna Maria ‘Settela’ Steinbach peeks outside , at the last moment just before the sliding door is closed , standing inside a freight wagon with 74 people on May 19 , 1944 in the Westerbork concentration camp in Holland , when this deportation train leaves for Auschwitz-Birkenau – where Settela is murdered a few months later in one of the gas chambers. Here she wears a headscarf made from a torn sheet, because the Nazis had her head shaved , and while Settela peeks outside , her mother cries behind her in the car : “Get out of there, or soon your head gets in between!”
She was filmed by the jewish prisoner filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer as part of a documentary film being made on the Westerbork camp. More info here http://romasinti.eu/#story/settela-steinbach
In this short film I start with a slow-motion (10x) of the 3 seconds clip, followed by the unedited clip from the Westerbork 1944 film rushes / Rudolf Breslauer / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).
Credit
Edited from Westerbork Acte 1 (02-1167) raw footage courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid | OpenImages.
Camera : Rudolf Breslauer, 1944, Westerbork, Netherlands .
Film: Settela | 20170721 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com – CC BY 4.0 .
① memo 20170703 ~ What’s Behind The Curtain ? ~ Brief view through a curtain outside Lisa Oppenheim’s two-channel , looped, video installation at the exhibition “The Still Point of the Turning World – Between Film and Photography” in the FOMU museum (filmed last thursday) , Antwerp , Belgium
① memo 20170614 ~ Dag Dag ~ Sunset over nurseries (note for passerby : difficult to both talk and hand-hold my smartphone steady some 3 minutes) , Alphen , Holland
① memo 20170226 ~ Wind ~ Self-portrait in the Béla Tarr exhibition “Till the End of the World” (at the entrance of the multi-room installation) two weeks ago in the EYE Filmmuseum , Amsterdam , Holland
