From the Editor's Desk In his poem The Hangman at Home (1922), the US poet Carl Sandburg ponders the life of the titular hangman, asking a series of questions that juxtapose the violence of his work with his quaint home life. This adaptation from Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot, a husband-and-wife filmmaking team originally from Israel and now based in Denmark, pairs Sandburg’s words with five animated fragments, each of them unfolding in a single room amid intimate, private moments. In one scene, a man calmly steps through what appears to be his bombed-out home, with the sounds of air raid sirens eventually blaring in the background. In another, a man tends to a bedridden loved one who seems to be near death. Yet another scene mirrors a line from the poem in which one of the hangman’s children asks him to ‘play horse’. |
Thursday 9th May 2024
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