Let There Be Light
John Huston / US, 1946 / 58 min.
A compelling account of a group of American WWII veterans undergoing psychiatric treatment for a period of two months. The documentary was studied exhaustively by Paul Thomas Anderson for his feature film The Master. Screened in Shell Shock, Eye’s programme on coping with traumas.
7 April, clinical psychologist Ruud Bullens will give a lecture on PTSD.
21 April, Morgan Knibbe will give an introduction (English) and his Golden Calf-winning documentary The Atomic Soldiers will be screened as a prefilm. This screening is in cooperation with the John Adams Institute.
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Director
John Huston
Production year
1946
Country
US
Original title
Let There Be Light
Length
58 min.
Format
35mm
Part of
Shell Shock
The tormented Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, the soldiers suffering from PTSS in the documentary Crazy and the ex-tank commander of the animated film Waltz with Bashir share one thing: the urge to tell what happened to them in order to come to grips with it. Eye’s Shell Shock provides a forum for the cinematic representation of violent conflicts and traumatic memories.
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