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Not Our Darkness
January 1 2009 (almost 16 years ago)Rating
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The history of the Gdansk Shipyard as a setting to explore Walter Benjamin’s ‘dialectical image’.
- Director: Adam Kossoff
- Runtime: 25 m
30 years from the formation of Solidarity, 20 years from the introduction of democracy in Poland, there is widespread concern that the Gdansk Shipyard will be irrevocably destroyed through urban re-development. Using fragments of archive film from the popular struggle in the Poland, together with footage of the current destruction of the Gdansk Shipyard, Not Our Darkness is a poetic exploration of how memory, time and place interweave to form ‘image-constellations’; and how urban re-development threatens to obliterate the traces of past struggles.