Film dokumentalny Akcja T4, lekarze w służbie nazizmu jako medium pamięci protetycznej
Documentary Film Action T4, A Doctor Under Nazism as a Medium of Prosthetic Memory

Summary/Abstract: Prosthetic memory refers to memories acquired because of the personal experience of receiving au-diovisual and multisensory products of mass culture (Skalska, 2014, p. 343). The article attempts toanswer the question of whether a documentary narrating a silenced event with no full representation,can function as a medium of prosthetic memory? I attempt to indicate how the film structure of ActionT4, A Doctor Under Nazism (dir. Catherine Bernstein, 2014) can generate the experience of events get-ting blurred in communicative memory and not yet fixed in cultural memory. Is the bricolage structu-re of the film narrative, engaging the viewer’s attention and emotions, capable of bringing back fromoblivion those who had to die because they were deemed unworthy of life, i.e. psychiatric hospitalpatients and persons with disabilities? Can a documentary film, by evoking facts affected by amnesiaand pushed out of memory, manage to turn the traces of the absence of the victims of Action T4 intoa m e m o r y that, at least for a moment, will restore their indispensable human dignity?

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