The Task of the Translator

Name: The Task of the Translator
Director: Lynne Sachs
Genre: Drama, Short, Documentary
Released: 2010-01-01
Duration: 600000 s

Directed by Lynne Sachs

Not Rated

2010 10m[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Short](/on-demand/category/short)

Lynne Sachs pays homage to Walter Benjamin's essay 'The Task of the Translator' through three studies of the human body. First, she listens to the musings of a wartime doctor grappling with the task of a kind-of cosmetic surgery for corpses. Second, she witnesses a group of Classics scholars confronted with the haunting yet whimsical task of translating a newspaper article on Iraqi burial rituals into Latin. And finally, she turns to a radio news report on human remains.