Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

On the occasion of the film's 25th anniversary, we present Claude Lanzmann's nine–and–a–half hour landmark documentary Shoah, considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, in a new 35mm print. Twelve years in the making, Shoah is a monumental epic on the Holocaust featuring interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators. The film does not contain any historical footage but rather features interviews which seek to reincarnate'' the tragedy, and scenes of places where the crimes took place. Growing out of the filmmaker’s concern that the genocide was already retreating into the mists of time, the film is a triumph of form and content that reveals hidden truths while rewriting the rules of documentary filmmaking. (1985, nine and a half hours, 35mm) The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley is also presenting Shoah, Feb 20, 26 & 27.