{"id":14093,"date":"2016-03-29T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=14093"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:32:28","slug":"new-film-highlights-preservation-of-art-during-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/03\/29\/new-film-highlights-preservation-of-art-during-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"New film highlights preservation of art during WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Francofonia-Film-image.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14094\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Francofonia-Film-image-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Francofonia-Film-image\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>How did the Louvre survive the Nazi occupation during World War II?<br \/>\n<em>Francofonia<\/em>, a new film\u00a0opening in New York on\u00a0Friday, dramatizes the relationship between\u00a0two men from opposing countries as they strive to preserve artwork during wartime. Conservators may enjoy this glimpse into history. View the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t2IEXUspJVg\">trailer<\/a> or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/ww.musicboxfilms.com\/francofonia\">website<\/a> for more about the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"s1\">From master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, whose film\u00a0<em>Russian Ark<\/em> was a love letter to the Hermitage and Russian History, <em>Francofonia<\/em>\u00a0is its own cinematic essay on the imperative nature of preserving art and history in the world\u2019s museums.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum\u2019s history and artworks, \u00a0Sokurov applies his personal vision onto staged re-enactments and archives for this fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich and their compulsory collaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation. These two remarkable men &#8211; enemies, then collaborators &#8211; share an alliance which would become the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. In its exploration of the Louvre Museum as a living example of civilization, <em>Francofonia<\/em>\u00a0is<b>\u00a0<\/b>a meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span class=\"s3\">Interspersed within the story of the Louvre under occupation is Sokurov himself, in video conference with a ship\u2019s captain facing rough seas and terribly worried about his precious cargo: art treasures from around the world. In this narrative, Sokurov contemplates the origins of art and the sacred duty of conserving the world\u2019s cultural treasures at nearly any cost, as he recalls the Louvre\u2019s most trying times during World War II and the present day. &#8212; from Music Box Films<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the Louvre survive the Nazi occupation during World War II? Francofonia, a new film\u00a0opening in New York on\u00a0Friday, dramatizes the relationship between\u00a0two men from opposing countries as they strive to preserve artwork during wartime. Conservators may enjoy this glimpse into history. View the trailer or visit the website for more about the film. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/03\/29\/new-film-highlights-preservation-of-art-during-wwii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New film highlights preservation of art during WWII&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-14093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-conservation-in-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}