"Searching for Gerda Taro" & "The Man with Thousand Eyes"
Barcelona Jewish Film Festival
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Filmoteca de Catalunya Plaça Salvador Seguí 1-9, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of Filmoteca de Catalunya
These two films will be shown one after the other. Searching for Gerda Taro is directed by Camille Ménager and is set in Spain, July 1936. As the country flares up, Gerda Taro and her partner Robert Capa rush to fight alongside the Republicans to document and photograph the battle against Franco’s troops. Their goal is to shake and awaken the sleeping consciousness of an indecisive Europe. Out of this passion, Gerda Taro did not come out alive, dying on the eve of her 27th birthday. Thanks to the recent uncovering of her work, this documentary shines a new light on her role as a war photographer and artist.
Image courtesy of Filmoteca de Catalunya
The second film is The Man with a Thousand Eyes, directed by Alexandru Solomon. Surnamed the dean of photo reporters, he was close to the avant-garde movement and made a significant contribution to ethnographical photography. His name was Iosif Berman and he lived in Romania from 1890 to 1941. His pictures bear witness to the evolution of photography in those times. He captured the images of almost half a century of European history.
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