
19:45 min, 16mm, DCP, 3:4
No dialogue
A Jerusalem-born artist is asked to create a work about a Wuppertal-born artist, a celebrated National Socialist sculptor of the 1940s.
While accepting the challenge, he refuses to name the subject in the very work he was invited to reflect upon: the work of Arno Breker, who was to Hitler in sculpture what Leni Riefenstahl was in film.
How can we create art in 2025 about that dark past?
What meaning can emerge through this process?
What language can carry it in a present where violence is once again being justified and normalized?
In a new essay film, Assaf Gruber drowns himself once again in the depths of art history, breathing through his personal account in a quest to find an artistic moral compass: Commissioned Confession, a silent film in the age of silencing.




