О других кинопространствах: документальный фильм о Холокосте как коллекция [Of Other Cinematic Spaces: the Holocaust Documentary as a Collection]

This paper explores Holocaust documentaries which combine present-day filming with

archival footage from the 1930s representing the Polish villages where the Jews lived before the

Nazis invaded Poland. The concept of heterotopia, as it was articulated by Michel Foucault in the

article “Of other spaces”, is used here to establish a connection between conventional museum

collections and the collections of images from various eras which are displayed in these documentaries.

In doing so, this chapter investigates issues of memory, nostalgia and representation

with the support of a framework of analysis that focuses on the ways in which certain places are

constructed on various layers of meaning and relationships to other spaces.