A Jerusalem-born artist is asked to create a work about a Wuppertal-born artist, a celebrated nazi sculptor of the 1940s. While accepting the challenge, he refuses to name the subject in the very work he is invited to reflect upon: Arno Breker, who was to Hitler in sculpture what Leni Riefenstahl was in film. How can we create art in 2026 about this dark past? What meaning can emerge through it? COMMISSIONED CONFESSION is a silent film in the age of silencing.
- Cask Films
- Guillaume Cailleau
- Cask Films
- Guillaume Cailleau
- Assaf Gruber
- http://assafgruber.com
Assaf Gruber
Assaf Gruber, born 1980 in Jerusalem, is a Berlin-based visual artist and filmmaker. He graduated from the Cooper Union in New York, Beaux-Arts Paris, and HISK Ghent. His films have been screened at the Berlinale, FID Marseille, and IFFR. In 2025 he received the Berlin Art Prize from the Academy of the Arts.
Filmography
2016 The Right
2017 The Calling
2018 The Conspicuous Parts
2019 Daphne and Thomas
2021 Transient Witness
2022 Rude Witness
2023 Never Come Back
2025 Miraculous Accident
2026 Commissioned Confession