Night and Fog Alain Resnais 1955

--production circumstances

--commissioned to document the state of concentration camp sites ten years after the war

--shot largely on location (for “present-day” footage)

--key ideas, concerns

--memory; time

--personal and cultural memory

--process of creating and using documents

-- strategies as a documentary

--how does compare to other films? How is this a different kind of documentary “voice”?