PROJECT GALLERY

The Project Gallery is a collection of projects produced by members of our fiscal sponsorship program and other Creative Visions impact media programs. This includes projects that are currently in production, as well as completed projects.

Hitler’s Eye

An archive of 20,000 images resides within the Berlin home of Hanns-Peter Frentz, hidden out of shame over his family’s role in their creation. Now revealed, they expose the inner workings of Hitler’s propaganda machine, uncovering the visual ideology that metastasized within his cloistered world.

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CATEGORY: Film/Video
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Sigrid Dyekjaer

Hitler’s Eye is a bold and visceral film by Academy Award nominee Dror Moreh, unboxing a hidden visual archive of Adolf Hitler’s private life. The project reveals over 20,000 never-before-seen photographs, film reels, and diaries captured by Hitler’s personal cameraman, Walter Frentz, who hid his Nazi ties to continue his life unscrutinized after the war. Now, his son Hanns-Peter has chosen to release this extraordinary archive. Unlike propaganda imagery, these intimate and unguarded moments expose the psychology of power, manipulation, and the allure of evil. As Hanns-Peter confronts his father’s legacy, the film becomes a journey through inherited guilt and historical reckoning. Hitler’s Eye not only transforms our understanding of Hitler’s world but also forces reflection on today’s rise in authoritarianism, showing how visual media can distort truth and shape the narratives that sustain tyranny.