Four decades after the release of Shoah, one of the most important documentaries ever made, Here Add Movies Name offers a profound return to the mind and method of its creator, Claude Lanzmann. Director Guillaume Ribot constructs an intimate portrait of Lanzmann’s uncompromising quest to bear witness to the Holocaust, drawing exclusively from the filmmaker’s own words and never-before-seen footage from the making of Shoah.
Through raw interviews, abandoned reels, and moments of quiet obsession, the film reveals how Lanzmann rejected archival images in favor of testimony, memory, and presence. The result is a deeply reflective documentary that examines the moral weight of representation, the burden of history, and the personal cost of insisting that the untold must finally be told—no matter how long it takes.
- Source Material: Unseen footage and recorded words from Shoah
- Subject Focus:
- The making of Shoah
- Lanzmann’s philosophy of testimony and memory
- Themes: Historical truth, remembrance, ethical filmmaking, persistence
- Style: Archival-driven documentary using voice, interviews, and unseen material
- Historical Significance: A reflective companion to one of cinema’s most influential documentaries
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