Lanzmann on burning Auschwitz footage
example · film: Shoah ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek references Claude Lanzmann's claim that if he found film reels of Nazis recording prisoners dying in Auschwitz, he would burn them, because 'you see too much', it is an 'impossible phenomenon' that disintegrates reality.
As told 1
“if I were to get hold of those shots I would have immediately burned them”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz1Carl Fredrik Mörck1Charlton Heston1Stephen Boyd1Jean-Luc Mélenchon1Cecil B. DeMille1Lillian Hellman1Rebecca Carson1
alongside works
Every retelling 1
Žižek references Claude Lanzmann's claim that if he found film reels of Nazis recording prisoners dying in Auschwitz, he would burn them, because 'you see too much', it is an 'impossible phenomenon' that disintegrates reality., illustrating things in themselves,inhuman view