Eyewitness (1999)

Directed by

Bert Van Bork

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

39 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows three artists who were imprisoned in Nazi death camps and secretly made art documenting their experiences. It shows how they used painting to bear witness to the horrors around them.

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What happens

Eyewitness is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Bert Van Bork. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The explored the lives of three artists forced to work in secret while living in Nazi death camps: Jan Komski, Dinah Gottliebova and Felix Nussbaum, and who witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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