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The Natural History of Destruction
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- Museum of Modern Art, film theaters
W. G. Sebald’s writing inspires Sergei Loznitsa’s archival documentary about the wartime destruction of German cities and its aftermath.
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- In person
- Location
- Museum of Modern Art, film theaters, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, Manhattan, New York City
About this event
Drawing on W. G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction, Sergei Loznitsa brings together German, British and American wartime footage. The film examines the devastation of bombing campaigns and the ways postwar society remembered—or avoided remembering—the destruction.
Part of MoMA’s Sergei Loznitsa retrospective. In German and English with English subtitles; 109 minutes. Reserve through MoMA.
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Film based on German author W. G. Sebald and bombing of Germany.