We are very happy to share with you photos from the presentation of Miriam Franks poignant and beautifully written autobiography, My Innocent Absence: Tales From A Nomadic Childhood, which took place at Abanico in Athens on Friday November 28. The presentation was followed by a special screening of Luis Franks (Miriam Franks father) 1938 documentary on the Spanish Civil War, Amanecer sobre España. On November 30 at Abanico, there was also a special screening of acclaimed docudrama, Recuerdos, by Marcela Arteaga, based on the story of Luis Franks life. To find out more about Miriams book, which will be published in Greek by Kapon Editions in 2015, please click on the link below: arcadiabooks.co.uk/books/My%20Innocent%20Absence For more information on the documentary, see below: RECUERDOSde Marcela Arteaga. México, 2003, 86 min When Mexican filmmaker Marcela Arteaga first heard the story of the enigmatic Luis Frank, she knew she wanted to make a film about him: born a Lithuanian Jew, he grew up in New York, spent his formative years fighting as a partisan in the Spanish Civil War, was captured by the Nazis in France, survived Auschwitz, and finally settled in Mexico, which became as close to a home as this lifelong exile experienced. But Arteaga’s exquisite and lyrical film is far from a straightforward biography -- rather, she takes Frank’s restless and eventful life as a template for exploring the ruptures inflicted by the 20th century. The voices and memories of people scattered across the world whose lives overlapped Frank’s -- from Spain to France to Poland -- create a haunting kaleidoscope of remembrance. Their stories, intercut with ravishing landscapes and poetic imagery rarely achieved with such subtlety in documentary, are testimony to a century of migration, rootlessness, and the universal longing for home. Gradually, a picture emerges not only of the archetypal and mysterious Luis Frank, but also of a generation of disrupted lives coping with the inescapable persistence, pain, and joy of memory.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:41:35 +0000
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