Flags of Our Fathers

(Clint Eastwood, US 2006, 135 min., 35mm)

Film ÷ Photography. Flags of Our Fathers is both a WWII epic and an investigation into one of the most famous war photographs of all times: the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima that marked one of the turning points of the war. In a film that is as gritty and beautiful as any directed by Clint Eastwood, we follow life stories of six men depicted in the photograph, and their attempts to cope with burden bestowed upon them by history.

Preceded by La Jetée (Chris Marker, France 1962, 28 min., 16mm), another film revolving around the concepts of still image and history, and considered by many as the greatest and almost impossibly poetic short film ever made.