Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image by Caterina Albano

Author:Caterina Albano
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

3.2 ‘Just an Image’: The Watch Man

Illingworth’s The Watch Man is the portrait of an elderly man who, as a nineteen-year-old British soldier and the youngest of his unit, witnessed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 and was traumatized by the experience. 2 His memories were muted for years: ‘The people did not want to know – they did not want to hear’. Yet the intrusive memories of what he witnessed return to him as haunting images of a wood, of graves and corpses,They’d already dug one quite huge grave – just, just a huge, a huge cavity […] They were all skeletons, they didn’t really look like people, human beings at all, they were just bone […] All around were these people, they were figures − they, have to call them not people – they were figures […] They were not walking, they were not walking, they were simply very, very slowly moving around. (Illingworth 2007, voiceover)

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