I Am Here – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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98-YEARS-YOUNG: Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal. Photograph courtesy youtube

BEHIND THE FEISTY face and wry sense of humour of 98-year-old Capetonian Ella Blumenthal is a history that underpins the life of many European Jews who lived through the scourge of the Holocaust, bereft, broken and with scant wherewithal to pick up pieces and start life all over again. I Am Here, a film directed by Jordy Sank, features on this year’s Encounters International South African Documentary Film Festival, which runs from 10-20 June 2021, online and at the Bioscope in Johannesburg.

The work has some beautiful moments, but alas these feel like chance encounters of juxtapositions that work. In many respects it seems as though the director in his earnest desire to do good, has used every colour in the proverbial crayon box – from animation to drawing, graphics tricks to heavy timelines and music dripping with Fiddler on the Roof schlock. In many ways, this syrupiness hurts the fabric…

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