Forty years after Claude Lanzmann’s monumental nine-hour film Shoah reshaped how the world remembers the Holocaust, filmmaker Guillaume Ribot returned to Lanzmann’s original materials and created a profound and riveting documentary all his own.
A surprisingly propulsive and suspenseful film, All I Had Was Nothingness draws on 220 hours of previously unseen outtake film footage Lanzmann shot in the 1970s recently digitized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Ribot revisits Lanzmann’s 12-year odyssey, providing a fuller picture of the personal, ethical, logistical, and financial strain behind the monumental work. Interwoven with excerpts from Lanzmann’s memoir, All I Had Was Nothingness reveals not only the immense scope of Lanzmann’s undertaking, but also the man behind it.
More than a “making-of” documentary, All I Had Was Nothingness stands as a moving meditation on memory, testimony, and the power of cinema to confront history. As Shoah joins UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, Ribot’s film emerges as both a tribute to Lanzmann’s lifelong mission to preserve the voices of those who endured humanity’s darkest chapter, and an essential stand-alone work of art that deepens our understanding of how one filmmaker’s tireless pursuit reshaped collective remembrance of the Holocaust.
World Premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival (Special Presentation), Official Selection at the Telluride Film Festival, and winner of the David Stein Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival and Best Documentary at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
New England premiere for Yom HaShoah. Introduction by Fran Colletti, executive director of Facing History and Ourselves New England.
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