Buried in Light (1994)

A meditation on history memory and change in Central and Eastern Europe Buried in Light is a nonnarrative journey a cinematic collage Cohens search for images began at a time of extraordinary flux as the Berlin Wall was dismantledopening borders yet ushering in a nascent wave of consumer capitalism What he saw struck him as a profound paradox the moment Eastern Europe was revealed was simultaneously the moment it was hidden by the blinding light of commercialism Cohens images are neither the tourists roster of picturesque vistas and monuments nor the mass medias definitive catalog of dramatic moments Instead he focuses on details ordinary objects and forgotten placesfilming daily life as seen on the street