The Task of the Translator
2010 · Lynne Sachs · 11 min · Short, Drama · United States
Spoken in English
Subtitled in English and Portuguese
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…