In the confinement of confinements,
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 4:54 am
There were the EHPADs. A tragic closed-door situation where people died in large numbers was mentioned... As much as possible on TV. Plans of buildings, interviews with a boom with a microphone equipped with protective plastic for TV (one of the emblematic images of the TV journalist in times of pandemic). We saw a few images of coffins, mortuary vans, and other white sheets to hide the sinister spectacle. Death does not approach like that. More discreet than ever, at the behest of the authorities, the farewell ceremonies, the tears, were absent... Fade to black.
Marie de Hennezel spoke of this denial of fantuan database death. The least of dignities also required this quasi-neutralization of the image.
In Italy, the chapels of rest set up in the north of the country will nevertheless remain etched in memories. Fixed shots of coffins in numbers. Chilling. Certainly, the circumstances of a region overwhelmed by the influx of sick people caused this, and therefore these sequences. But the mass death was filmed, shown.
Likewise in New York, also overwhelmed by the pandemic. There, it was refrigerated trucks and mass graves that left their mark. In particular, the images taken by photographer George Steinmetz and his drone last April. The fact that he was able to report on the burial by prisoners of dozens of bodies unclaimed by families on Hart Island earned him the seizure of his equipment by the authorities.
Marie de Hennezel spoke of this denial of fantuan database death. The least of dignities also required this quasi-neutralization of the image.
In Italy, the chapels of rest set up in the north of the country will nevertheless remain etched in memories. Fixed shots of coffins in numbers. Chilling. Certainly, the circumstances of a region overwhelmed by the influx of sick people caused this, and therefore these sequences. But the mass death was filmed, shown.
Likewise in New York, also overwhelmed by the pandemic. There, it was refrigerated trucks and mass graves that left their mark. In particular, the images taken by photographer George Steinmetz and his drone last April. The fact that he was able to report on the burial by prisoners of dozens of bodies unclaimed by families on Hart Island earned him the seizure of his equipment by the authorities.