The O.W. Diaries (coming soon)
While researching at the Leitmeritz and Flossenbürg camps, I came upon a treasure chest of lost diary fragments and reels of 8mm and 16mm film.
Each fragment pointed inexorably toward a spectral figure known only in passing to historians as Oskar Weiß.
Yet the outlines of this discovery unnerve what we have been considered for decades as historical facts: Weiss, once nominated for inclusion among the Righteous Among the Nations, now appears to merge, with disquieting probability, into the vile figure of Otto Weissel.
a cine text | a speculative archival film | CZ, BiH | 2026
Weissel, a shadowy opportunist, thrived within the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as in the Independent State of Croatia.
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In this speculative documentary, this archival palimpsest, this "document film," or, simply, this cine-text, history itself is summoned to the stand, compelled to confront its own fragile scaffolding of memory, myth, and omission, looking at a few lives of a brave partisans in the antifascist struggle--and, in counterpoint, the spectral figure of an opportunist who drifted through the years beneath borrowed names.
