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also be achieved through audio. In Th is Unfamiliar Place, a 1992 short fi lm

memoir about the experiences of the director’s father, Eva Ilona Brzeski is

not physically present in the footage shot for the movie. When fi lming her

father for her movie, it was clear that the tragic events he experienced as a

youth in Poland during World War II were diffi cult to discuss, and there is

little traditional interview footage in the movie. She uses voiceover to tell his

story from her perspective and to off er refl ections on the role of catastrophic

events in her life.

Figure 6-15 Filmmaker

Agnès Varda in The Beaches

of Agnès. (Courtesy

Ciné-Tamaris)

Figure 6-16 Director Eva

Ilona Brzeski’s father in This

Unfamiliar Place. (Courtesy Eva

Ilona Brzeski)

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