200,000 Phantoms

Jul 11, 2007 11m

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Synopsis

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

Title	200,000 Phantoms
Companies	Jean-Gabriel Périot
Countries	France
Keywords	japan, atomic bomb, photography, world war ii, architect, artist, war memorial, collage, hiroshima, japan, sculptor, catastrophe, short film