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”An undoubtedly essential work”
– Marina Pavido / Cinema Austriaco

“With Holofiction, I aim to reach especially younger audiences — often distanced from these histories in a world shaped by change and radicalisation.”
– Michal Kosakowski

“For Holofiction, [director Michal] Kosakowski set out to investigate the iconography of Holocaust representation in fiction film and how it contributes to collective memory of the human tragedy. As a point of departure, he takes Claude Lanzmann’s famous statement: “Fiction is a transgression. It is my belief that the depiction of certain things is prohibited”—and enters into a polemic with it. Almost ten years ago, he began a project with the goal of watching every fiction film about the Holocaust he could find, cataloguing the recurring visual tropes, and ultimately assembling them into a full-length film.
Holofiction is a 102-minute supercut that reveals patterns and motifs across decades of Holocaust cinema. — Kosakowski assembles more than a dozen recurring tropes into chapter-like segments, each divided by a silent black screen and arranged in chronological order, charting the path from the preparations for genocide through its systematic execution.”
– Sonya Vseliubska / Documentary Magazine