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Epoca (2002)

Name: Epoca
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-08-20T23:10:59+02:00

Documentary | 93 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 93 minuten

Country: Switzerland

Directed by: Andreas Hoessli, Isabella Huser

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Epoca plot

Swiss directors Andreas Hoessli and Isabella Huser wonder how history is made in this kaleidoscopic film essay. People tend to distil a clear story from everything, especially when it comes to historiography. The Swiss demonstrate this principle through an open but not optional collage structure. They fuse diverse historical material into a new history, by making connections between events, thoughts and images that at first sight have nothing to do with each other. The question that always plays in the background: what enters our collective memory and what does not? For “Epoca”, Hoessli and Huser have collected diverse, remarkable and sometimes forgotten fragments of important historical events: the making of the atomic bomb, a Russian mock trial during the Second World War, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia...