
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
United States / English / 2008 / 10m
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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