Description
An homage not only to Walter Benjamin but to two other time-traveling artists and honorary expatriates — Chris Marker and Patti Smith.
While fleeing fascism, Benjamin took refuge in Paris where the Bibliothèque Nationale became a home away from home. There, a manuscript was hidden from which is drawn much of what remains of his great unfinished life project, ‘Das Passagen-Werk.’
Much of the narration for this film came from asking Patti Smith to read every definition of the word “passage” from the Oxford English Dictionary, which Cohen later edited and augmented with text of his own.