Please note: Due to unforeseen circumstances, J. P. Gorin will not appear in person at this screening as previously announced. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

(La guerre d'un seul homme). “One Man's War is a frightening descent into the garbage can of history” (New York Film Festival). “The basis of my film,” writes Argentine-born director Edgardo Cozarinsky, “is an idea of Walter Benjamin's to write a book consisting entirely of quotations. I wanted to let quotations talk to each other, so that by the process of confrontation alone they would say more.” Juxtaposing German writer and army officer Ernst Jünger's Parisian Diaries, which describe German-occupied Paris, with French newsreel footage of the period, “Aryan” music by Hans Pfiltzner and Richard Strauss, and “degenerate” music by Arnold Schönberg and Franz Schreker, Cozarinsky creates a “documentary fiction,” finding each in the other. With this collage of quotations, he is concerned not with delineating a historically accurate portrait of the time, but rather with creating a sense of the web of lies, half-truths, and deceptions spun by both the mass media and private individuals.