My Necropolis

My Necropolis

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 7, 2009

Runtime

0h 32m

Original Title

My Necropolis

Director

Moyra Davey

Description

Moyra Davey's video My Necropolis pairs footage of cemeteries in Paris with attempts at interpreting an enigmatic line from a letter that Walter Benjamin wrote to his friend Gershom Scholem in 1931. Benjamin, living in very difficult financial circumstances, mentions a clock outside his window which increasingly becomes a luxury that “it [was] difficult to do without.”