Two films from Eastern Europe evoke the centrality of loneliness in the 20th century experience following the upheaval of the Holocaust. In Chronicle..., manipulating movies of the Warsaw Ghetto shot by Nazi cameramen, Jolanta Dylewska enters into the images, magnifies and slows them, so that moments become stories. We begin to presume a knowledge of these individuals. The uprising from March 19 to May 10, 1943 is then told in exacting detail by her protagonist Marek Edelman, then a leader in the Jewish underground. His account evokes a people bound together in struggle, yet cut off from salvation. Preceded by Illusions (Kornilijus Matuzevicius, Lithuania, 1993, 20 mins). Writer Jokubas Josadé describes himself as a castoff of modern European society, both as an intellectual of the older generation and as a Jew.