Journal captures three temporal layers in one shot. First, there is the handheld camera moving along a series of photos of official visits to the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. The dignitaries themselves are looking at one of the iconic images of the Holocaust taken by an American soldier named H. Miller. Sirah Foighel Brutmann’s father’s photographic archive forms the basis of this film, just as it did for their previous work Printed Matter. André Brutmann was a freelance photographer in the Middle East, and between 1986 and 2000 he often shot official visits to Yad Vashem. Journal is a multilayered work in which the filmmakers play with time, movement and point of view. There is silence all around: the only sound is that of the cameraman breathing.
