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Immersive Holocaust Doc ‘Letters From Drancy’ Uses New Media to Honor Survivors
The wrenching film follows survivor Marion Deichmann as she returns to her native France to retrace both family tragedy and her own path to safety.
The film also crystalizes a major theme of this year’s NewImages, showing how an affecting and artistically accomplished work might find an ideal distribution and exhibition berth on the museum and educational circuit. We actually built a permanent exhibition space at our museum for these VR films, and then we wanted to do more, but this time to focus on less covered stories, like sites in Western Europe, or the Jews that went to Shanghai. Even though the story is now 80 years in the past, the film immediately connects you to this universal experience of love and family and loss, of strength, courage and resilience that comes from surviving something traumatic, and of the hope that our parents are proud of us.
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