A couple weeks ago I re-watched Jan Nemec's A Report on the Party and the Guests, which I'm using in my Images of Fascism class this semester. Last night I finished Nemec's first feature film, Diamonds of the Night. It tells the story, in a very purposefully elliptical and nightmarish fashion, of two boys who escape from a train taking them to a concentration camp. Like the later A Report on the Party and the Guests, Diamonds in the Night features commentary on present/past events mixed in with a goodly amount of the surreal. I'm not a huge Nemec fan, while also recognizing his well-deserved influence, and I didn't like Diamonds of the Night as much as A Report on the Party and the Guests, but I would still definitely recommend folks to give it a watch.
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