The Whole Poem Is a Curse

Lynne Sachs

In Berlin, Sachs visits with retired German film programmer Angela Haardt as she grapples with the war she experienced and somehow misunderstood as a child in the 1940s: “The Jewish girls one day weren’t there any longer. You didn’t see the action, but you saw the results. How is that possible?” Listening to Haardt opens up Sachs’ own thinking, as an American Jew, about the genocide in Gaza today. An excerpt from Sachs’ feature Every Contact Leaves a Trace.