Fotografías del Campo de Concentración Le Vernet D'Ariege [DVD]

A DOCUMENTARY TO REACTIVATE LA AND LA OF EXPRESSION In May 1993, a trunk full of old negatives was discovered in an attic and left in the care of the director and photographer Linda Ferrer-Roca. Those negatives in which he finds some 2,000 front and profile faces, corresponding largely to the judicial files of the Vernet d'Ariège concentration camp, between 1939-1944, where many ex-combatants of the Spanish Civil War were confined, are very positive. Images of everyday life also appear. The film revolves around the director's investigation to locate, identify and recover, as far as possible, the subjects of the images: Spanish republicans, foreign anti-fascists detained on French soil... and she manages to gather some survivors so that they can help us. Tell us how it all happened and thus avoid “the horror of oblivion” as Marguerite Duras would say. Daughter of Spanish political refugees, Linda grew up with a very sensitive awareness of the history of the concentration camps in south-west France, and it is mainly through the critical gaze that photography represents - “pressing the button is never innocent.” - tells us, how she gets involved in this film. Beyond a critical reading and a poetic image, this magnificent documentary is based on the capacity of photography to reactivate memory and freedom of expression. A mosaic of words and looks to tell the horror and banality of the concentration camps.