John Doggett Williams

An eyewitness documentary, featuring interviews with five Jewish survivors, a cameraman who recorded the camp’s liberation, and Australian war artist Alan Moore, the first to record the horrors of the BERGEN-BELSEN camp. Frank Shield’s film reflects on the experiences of camp inmates to convey the full horror of the Holocaust. In a moving counterpoint, the film records a reunion between two Jewish survivors, Olga Horak and Helen Schon and war artist, Alan Moore.

Melbourne based Stelarc burst into prominence in the early 1970s with a series of confronting, and outrageous public art performances. Following his mantra that ‘the body is obsolete’, the Cypriot-born Australian set about proving his theory by testing the limits of his own body in a series of death-defying stunts.