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WANDERING TULIP PRODUCTIONS

2001-0184

Film

The Walnut Tree

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2000

2000

Wandering Tulip Productions

director/producer/scenario/photography/editing, Elida Schogt; music, Tom Third; sound editing, Julie Saragosa; musician, Coenraad Bloemendal (cello)

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Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

As a follow-up to ZYKLON PORTRAIT, THE WALNUT TREE offers a combination of documentary and experimental approaches to examine Holocaust memory, the family and the role of photography in history.~Three girls in Dutch costumes stand posing for their father. This fleeting moment, made static in a photograph, is contrasted with the moving imagery of railway tracks - tracks that carried the death transports - now blurred with memory and time.~In a matter-of-fact tone, Schogt's mother describes how her parents tore several pictures out of the family albums when they fled the Nazis in 1943. The albums were kept safe in a warehouse in Amsterdam.~Schogt's mother recounts how the walnut tree her parents planted was cut down during the war. After the war, her sister finds the tree with several new shoots - now a huge tree that bears quantities and quantities of delicious fresh walnuts every year. <11mn>

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V1 2002-01-0019

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Copyright owner: Wandering Tulip Productions (Elida Schogt)

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