video of the month: Dani Gal. Nacht und Nebel

26.01.2012 to 26.01.2012

video of the month: Dani Gal. Nacht und Nebel

FILM & DIGITAL CULTURE, ART

video des monats: Dani Gal. Nacht und Nebel

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video of the month: Dani Gal. Nacht und Nebel

Datum: 01. bis 29.02.
Ort: KUNSTHALLE wien, ursula blickle videolounge

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Dani Gal. Nacht und Nebel
2011
HD Video Film
22min
commissioned for the 54. Venice Biennale, ILLUMInations, cur. Bice Curiger and Giovanni Carmine

Fifty years ago on April 11, 1961, the trial of Adolf Eichmann began. He was tried in an Israeli court and charged for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes and was convicted and executed by hanging on May 31, 1962.
On a night, between the 31st of May and the 1st of June 1962 shortly after the execution and the cremation of the body, a group of police officers sailed on a boat 6 miles out of the shores of Jaffa port. Their mission was to scatter Eichmann\'s ashes into the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The purpose of the highly secret mission was to ensure that there could be no future memorial and that no nation would serve as his final resting place.
Based on an interview Dani Gal made with Michael Goldman, a Holocaust survivor who was one of the policemen on the boat, the film re-enacts the scene of the group of policemen sailing on a dark foggy night with Eichmann\'s ashes in a jug of milk.

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