Director Yonathan Lévy will be present this evening at the CGR in Castres to present his documentary film Museum.
Every year, more than 2 million visitors come to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. If we usually go to a museum to see, here is a void that we come to grasp, imagine, try to understand. An abysmal void left by the disappearance of more than a million souls in this place. More than a million human beings exterminated relentlessly, gone up in smoke and disappeared forever. From men like us. On Tuesday 22 November at 8.45 pm, director Yonathan Lévy will be at the CGR in Castres to present his Film Museum. During a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, anonymous visitors learn about the atrocities of crime and abuse that took place within these walls. Some express their difficulties in understanding the tragedy that took place there or even in perceiving the immensity of the death that awaits them. Other visitors, on the other hand, prefer to immerse themselves in banal and banal discussions that resonate strangely in this place. The result is an original portrait of Auschwitz and a dizzying approach to the memory of the Shoah.
“My desire with this film was to tell the story of the visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum since millions of visitors visit it every year. However, it is as a museum that the vast majority of the public perceives this place, hence the choice of the title I have deliberately refused to add the mention of Auschwitz-Birkenau to invite the viewer to ask himself some questions before the film even begins: can this place be reduced to a museum? If it is not a museum, what is the function of this place today “Why are we going to Auschwitz,” says the director.
The film gives almost nothing to see of the places or the exhibition and prefers to focus on the visitors. “Confronting this absence and the immensity of this void therefore remains the heart of this visit, which thus takes on a metaphysical dimension. their reactions, rather than the exhibition halls and their contents.”
