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Time and Memory    Page Three

interviews with Holocaust survivors. The strong dialects of her subjects, recounting their experiences in the concentration camps, are combined with grainy and disruptive images, creating a quality of distance that prevents easy identification with these women.

In Juan Downey's About Cages (1987) the reading of a section of The Diary of Anne Frank (a figure who has long fascinated Downey) is juxtaposed with the words of a Chilean intelligence officer recounting the torture of political prisoners. These accounts of power and powerlessness play simultaneously on either side of a large cage which contains four live canaries and a television monitor which plays a videotape of a bird inside yet another cage. The readings coupled with the metaphorical space occupied by the live and videotaped birds comment on both political oppressions and the oppressive power of media.

Pier Marton is a European Jew now living in America whose videotapes deal with the imposing force of media versus personal awareness. Say I'm a Jew combines this dialectic with the formative task of establishing an identity for himself and other children of Holocaust survivors. Using a sparse, repetitive style, this collage of interviews with sixteen Jews, who grew up

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