The sky of April 1937 is crashing down upon us. Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens reconstruct that time of mourning—when the Basque town was bombed—at the intersection of art and memory. The streets are silent, and amid the rubble, the shattered forms of Guernica rise up. The immense pain seeping into Picasso’s canvas merges with the newspaper headlines of the era and the poetry of Paul Éluard. This short film brings to our screens, with documentary realism, the innocence lost in the midst of war and humanity’s darkest moment. Guy Bernard’s dissonant music, meanwhile, sets the rhythm of the destruction on screen.