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Migrating Images and Image Migration

Popular Culture and the Visual History of the Holocaust

Films and other visual content have a significant impact on our memory of historical events, especially the Holocaust. The International Conference Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the Holocaust explores the impact of historical film footage and photographs from the liberation and Nazi atrocities on popular culture representations of the Holocaust, particularly on films, graphic novels, artworks, video games, and digital media. Artists, directors, creators, and producers from the local and international creative industries join scholars and researchers to discuss artistic methods of integrating, referencing, appropriating and curating liberation - and other Holocaust-related imagery and their effect on the memory of the Holocaust. In a series of events at the Jerusalem Cinematheque filmmakers, artists, scholars and software designers discuss ways of exploring, searching and curating historical imagery in film, video art and digital environments.

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Supported by: Cardinal Franz König Chair in Austrian Studies, the Center for Austrian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visual History of the Holocaust - Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age.

Visual History of the Holocaust - Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 822670

Following the screening, director Christophe Cognet in discussion with Dr. Yona Hanhart-Marmor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

From Where They Stood

Dir.: Christophe Cognet
| 110 minutes

A handful of prisoners in WWII camps risked their lives to take clandestine photographs and document the hell the Nazis were hiding from the world. In the vestiges of the camps, director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs, piecing together an archeology of images serving as acts of defiance.

Screening & Conversation with Gil Yefman

Gil Yefman’s work explores, reflects on, and challenges Holocaust memory. The trans-disciplinary conceptual artist talks about his creative process. Introduction: Dr. Noga Stiassny