
Christophe Cognet
2021L'affaire Dominici
Christophe Cognet
Orson Welles, Jacques Chapus
In 1956, Orson Welles directed 'The Tragedy of Lurs', an episode of the television series 'Around the World' that was inspired by the murder of a British family near the Dominici farm. The film was unfinished, but the French director Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary.
The Dominici Affair by Orson Welles
À pas aveugles
Christophe Cognet
Tal Bruttmann, Christophe Cognet
A handful of prisoners in WWII camps risked their lives to take clandestine photographs and document the hell the Nazis were hiding from the world. In the vestiges of the camps, director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs, composing as such an archeology of images as acts of defiance.
From Where They Stood
Parce que j'étais peintre
Christophe Cognet
In 1945, when the Allies liberated the concentration camps, they discovered thousands of secretly created artworks. With unprecedented access to paintings, drawings, etchings and sculptures held in collections around the world, BECAUSE I WAS A PAINTER conducts a gripping and fascinating investigation into art that captures, reflects and inspires in difficult times.
Because I Was a Painter: Art That Survived the Nazi Camps