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The historical unconscious made visible. Traces or symptoms of the “missing People” (around three films by Sergei Loznitsa)

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At the same time, Sergei Loznitsa discovered the footage he used in Blocus (2006) – made of archival images of the nine hundred days blocus of Leningrad by the German armies - and in The Event (2015) – which assembles stock-shots of the city, during the five days the State of siege was proclaimed in Moscow (19-24 August 1991). However, he did not realize the editing of this second film until Maïdan (2014), whose images are shot by the filmmaker himself, during the Ukrainian uprising in the winter 2013-2014. The hypothesis that the article develops is that this intimate experience allowed Loznitsa to detect in the images of the mobilization of the population of Leningrad in 1991 what was radically lacking to those of the liberation of the city in 1944: the affirmation of an autonomous political power of the people. By giving us to see the images of this forgotten uprising, the filmmaker truly “works as an historian”, in the sense of Benjamin’s Theses on the Concept of History, “for it’s an irrecoverable image of the past that risks to faint with every present that did not recognize itself targeted by it.” Editing is thus not only a technical gesture, but a political gesture.
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hal-02639883 , version 1 (28-05-2020)

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Sylvie Rollet. The historical unconscious made visible. Traces or symptoms of the “missing People” (around three films by Sergei Loznitsa). Peter Aronsson; Andrej Slávik; Birgitta Svensson. Images in History – History in Images. Towards an (Audio)Visual Historiography, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, pp.175-190, 2019, 978-91-88763-07-5. ⟨hal-02639883⟩
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