Jan Hovers sent this piece of video to How to be a Retronaut. Over to Jan:
“Being a big fan of Retronautic time-travel, I remembered that I directed this video for Dutch television in 1992. I re-visited the exact spots where Otto Frank took pictures of his youngest daughter Anne Frank. I layed the photos over the current views. I filmed the contemporary spots in black & white and coloured the original photos, to underline the contrast between the colourful world of Anne before the war and the grey world after the war from which the Jewish young children (literally) had been torn. The video was structured around a poem written by a girl who was 15 in 1992.”
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Thank you to Jan Hovers
Incredible.
Powerful and moving. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this. Could Jan translate?
Here’s the translation of the poem by the young girl:
“Ze”
door Milica Elzinga
“She”
by Milica Elzinga
“Ik noem je Kitty”
schreef ze
“I call you Kitty”
she wrote
“Ik vertel je alles”
schreef ze
“I tell you everything”
she wrote
“Je bent een grote steun”
schreef ze
“You are a big support”
she wrote
“Ik ben bang”
schreef ze
“I am afraid”
she wrote
en toen
schreef Anne niet meer
and then
Anne did not write anymore
Remarkable. Thank you for this moving and sensitive piece.
A very moving short film