Inspired by Picasso’s painting known as Guernica, FC Bergman is presenting a wordless multimedia production about the impossibility of depicting war. 

Guernica became famous twice. The first time was when this Basque city was brutally destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, thus becoming the victim of the first strategic civilian bombardment in European history. The second time was not long afterward, when Pablo Picasso chose the atrocity as the subject for his similarly named and now immortal work of art.

Ironically, the fame of the work of art has largely outlived the fame of its own subject; people today remember the painting of the tragedy rather than the tragedy itself. And perhaps that is not even so strange…. 

FC Bergman takes a closer look at everyone involved in this war crime: those who suffered from it, those who caused it, and those who looked at it.