Séance
Poster for The Task of the Translator

Film

The Task of the Translator

2010 · United States · 10 min

Director

Lynne Sachs

Synopsis

Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin’s essay "The Task of the Translator" through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to the musings of a wartime doctor grappling with the task of a kind-of cos…

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