Pain & Repair
At a time of renewed interest in debates about restitution and repatriation, the film “Pain and Repair” is an attempt to approach the manifold questions that these objects invoke.
Through quiet observations of a choir, a tour guide, a restorer and two technicians within a Munich museum, the film paints a portrait of a space that oscillates between ambivalence, and anxiety. Drawing parallels with the physical experience of loss, this historically charged space appears as both a site of remembrance and the perpetuator of painful privation.