‘The place is My residence?’ by Cecelia de Jesus was the official winner of the USC Shoah Basis’s Pupil voices movie competitors in 2013. The movie tells the story of Vera Gissing and her escape from Czechoslovakia in the course of the begin of the Holocaust. The USC Shoah Basis is residence to one of many largest collections of digital archive footage of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, at present housing over 55,000 video testimonies.
De Jesus used archive footage, together with sand animation, to deliver Vera Gissing’s story to life. When watching the movie, you may’t assist however be entranced by the macro sequences the place we see particular person grains of sand and translucency. The summary imagery De Jesus creates with the sand spotlights Gissing’s testimony, the shifting pictures accompanying her voice somewhat than pulling consideration away from it. The movie tells a harrowing real-life story, emphasising Vera Gissing’s voice.
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