This is a video-art-essay about Adolf Hitler.
©Marcel Moonen
[Excerpt]
The amount of movies about the Second World War, and the publication of books about the character H. is enormous.
Our society is bombarded with a mixture of true and false images of the events that took place during WW2. It are these visuals that mold our outlook on the character H. The force of it all is stunningly powerful; it gradually affects our unconscious feelings, and therefore even our collective behavior.
From the dry-sec distant portraiture of H. in a German documentary about his uprising period, a satirical appearance in an English sketch by Charlie Chaplin, and its latest configuration, H. as a comedic-cardboard-figure (PG-13 Rating), in the creation of a Young New Zealand director.
Nevertheless all these projections from multiple directions have something non-essential in common; a focus on the surface traits of H., instead of the phenomenal content of H.
A psychologist stance: H. was both high in openness {creative mind} & highly orderly {systematic mind}. This combination is very uncommon, you could even say rare among society.