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Orly Yadin & Sylvie BringasSilence (1998)

11-minute animated documentary film about a little girl holocaust survivor and her learned and self-imposed silences


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Producer: Orly Yadin & Sylvie Bringas
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: animation; world war II; Theresienstadt; documentary; holocaust; childhood; identity
Contact Information: Sales on any tape format and DVD - orly@yadinproductions.com A DVD with many extras is available - storyboards, early scripts, animators' statements, Tana's recorded statement, articles on animation and documentary and much more. An essential tool for teachers and students of animaton, documentary fiml and history.

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Reviewer: orlyyadin - - December 27, 2008
Subject: Holocaust documentary
"[...] Silence, despite being only 11 minutes long, is arguably the most effective of all Holocaust documentaries."
Claiming the Real II
Documentary: Grierson and Beyond
by Brian Winston, a BFI book published 2008

Reviewer: orly yadin - - December 9, 2005
Subject: a virtuoso film
"...this virtuoso film best exemplifies the wonderful impressionistic quality that only animation is capable of achieving. This haunting memoir of a child survivor effortlessly flows from live-action historical footage with the drawn figure of a child floating through it, to stark black-and-white sketches of harrowing places and events, to brightly colored, contemporary scenes with a painterly quality. The often surrealistic story of suppressed feelings at last given voice should find a wide and grateful audience. --Jeff Dick

(Booklist/June 1 & 15, 1999)

Credits

Producers: Orly Yadin & Sylvie Bringas
Produced and written in collaboration with Tana Ross
Directors: Sylvie Bringas & Orly Yadin
Based on and adapted from "Through the Silence" by Noa Ain and Tana Ross
Colour scenes Director of Animation: Tim Webb
Black and White scenes Animator: Ruth Lingford
Original Music: Noa Ain
Editor: Tony Fish
Co-Producer in Sweden: Rock Film