Society today tries to keep death, severs illness, disfiguring wounds out of sights. But TV brings them back. They are even numerous these days, the painful images brought into our living-rooms. This session aims at a discussion on how to deal with catastrophes, unbearable pain and experience of death: how far can we go, and when does information become sensation? Can we learn from the film IVAN that describes the Parkinson disease? What do PREMIERE IN HIROSHIMA and SIMON’S WAR tell us when they sock the viewer with images o victims, precise and detailed?
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