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The director of After: Poetry Destroys Silence, Richard Kroehling, creates an eerie journey through memory and grief in this experimental film that mixes poetry, documentary footage, and old records. The film’s central thesis is that poetry is a crucial tool for facing the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust, not just an art form.

Kroehling disagrees with the famous idea put forth by philosopher Theodor Adorno that making art after such a terrible event is almost barbaric. Instead, he sees poetry as a necessary balm, a means by which the human spirit tries to articulate its traumas and maybe find comfort in the face of hopelessness.

The title strikes a chord, reminding us of the need to break the silence that comes with trauma through artistic expression and the burden of silence that comes with it. It suggests a duality: while silence can mean the weight of loss and absence,...

Géza Röhrig in Richard Kroehling’s After: Poetry Destroys Silence: “It was really quite a magic tree there on the shore.”

I first met Géza Röhrig when László Nemes introduced us at the Universal Pictures brunch in The Vault of the St. Regis for Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as Jobs with Jeff Daniels as Steve Wozniak and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld.

Géza Röhrig played Saul Ausländer in László Nemes’s Oscar-winning Son Of Saul. He played Georges, the cousin of Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg) in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance, and Shmuel opposite Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust (co-written with Jason Begue and co-produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer).

Géza Röhrig with Anne-Katrin Titze on The Way Of The Wind: “Obviously it has been edited forever, and we all know that Terrence Malick is a maestro.”

He will be seen as...

First off, has anyone heard of the Terasem Movement? Because I can't decide if it's a real thing, or just part of an insanely elaborate viral marketing campaign for this new cyberpunk themed scifi indie. If it is indeed a real group of scientists who are trying to bring about the immortality of the human race by using either nanotechnology, cybernetics or by digitizing all of our states of being and blasting them into space in order that we should live in peace for eternity among the cosmos then I truly salute them. Good luck to you gentlemen.

Now, onto this extremely interesting looking movie which has somehow eluded us.

Apparently writer / director Richard Kroehling has put a lot of science behind this film (if it's real science that is) so while 2B might seem like a Pinocchio-esque fairy tale about a scientist who creates an innocent synthetic being, I'm...