Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2008 : As Seen Through These Eyes

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As Seen Through These Eyes

2007

Categories: Arts In Film, Cinema of Conscience

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Run time: 70 min. | U S A

Art That Could Not Be Destroyed --

How much pain and suffering can human being endure without abandoning their souls? Opening with poet Maya Angelou's authoritative whispers as she recites "I know why the caged bird sings," this film bears witness to the art of the inspired souls whose compulsion to create art in the most dire of circumstances - the Holocaust - sometimes saved their lives.

Art is indeed a liberation song. And while Picasso's famous "Guernica" - one the last great history paintings - was painted in reaction to the blood shed by the children, women and men of a Basque village bombed by Nazis, the art featured in Hilary Helstein's harrowing documentary was created by fame-less numbers who refused to accept their gas-chamber fate without a fight to preserve the legacy of their predicament.

Artist Barbra Shilo who painted some of the artwork for the film (and who lost her family in the Holocaust) and filmmaker Hilary Helstein will be at the screening.

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