Khiam

Six individuals describe the years they've spent interned in the Khiam detention camp, built in 1985 by Israel's auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army. They tell of daily life in solitary confinement in closet-size rooms or six people to a cell. Deprived of everything except dreams, they hide scraps of life?stones, cheese wrappers, garbage?and create art. The camera merely observes. The artworks they have created out of ruins are victories without speeches. With short: Sanyu (Robert Frank, Switzerland/US., 2000, 29 mins): Photographer Robert Frank presents a cinematic journal of his friend, the Chinese artist Sanyu, who died penniless and unknown in Paris in 1966. Frank's unveiling of Sanyu's work created a firestorm in the art world.

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