THE DISAPPEARED is a black screen, like the lonely presence of a man who fades from our surroundigs . The experimental documentary by Gilad Balam and Adam Kaplan takes up the issue of a film filmed by the Israeli army in the late 1990s, made it with the intention of prevent young soldiers' suicides, and for some reason the army itself censured it and nobody, never, could see an one and only frame. The film is narrated in the present and in a great flashback, but (except during the reading of two scenes of the script, in which the screen is white, at the beginning and at the end) the no-image? never prevents reflection on art, politics and repression. Much less extreme than it seems, much more complex than its simplicity, witnessing it should be an indispensable action to unravel what is the scope of true cinema, that in a dark room you change your look to the world, perhaps forever.
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