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The Passage Clock (for Walter Benjamin)
The Passage Clock (for Walter Benjamin)
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10m
Directed by Jem Cohen • 2008 • United States
Jem Cohen’s homage to Walter Benjamin and other expat artists blends narration by Patti Smith with footage of Paris’s Bibliothèque nationale, where Benjamin found refuge from fascism in a sanctuary of books.
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