Nuit et brouillard (1955)

If you don’t learn from history you are bound to repeat it. After watching Night and Fog, I wonder how many nations learned from Germany’s folly. After WWII images of war were no longer testements to man’s inhumanity, but evidence that could be used against the defeated. America would be slow to learn this lesson. Too many images from Vietnam were transmitted home. Today, images are guarded, distant, even scarce. It seems that as our ability to capture and transmit imagery grows increasingly easier the amount of footage we see decreses. Is information being suppressed? Are we just getting jaded?

~ by Ryan Sarnowski on March 12, 2009.