• SFC - Shoah Film Collection
SFC - Shoah Film Collection is a joint venture between A Virtual Memorial Foundation with VideoChannel which will host SFC, to be launched on occasion of 65th return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz on 27 January 2010.
SFC - SHOAH FIlm Collection
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=669
SFC - Shoah Film Collection - solo features on VAD - Video Art Database
–> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1641
Call for entries
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1549
SFC is aimed to encourage film and videomakers all over the world to reflect the topic of SHOAH and related fields.
[wikipedia]
The Holocaust (from Greek ὁλόκαυστος [holókaustos]: hólos, “whole” and kaustós, “burnt”), also known as the Shoah (Hebrew): השואה, Romanized ha’shoah; Yiddish: חורבן, Romanized churben or hurban is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany.
Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis’ systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people. [wikipedia]
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For the concept of this collection, choosing “Shoah” instead of “Holocaust” as a term was much more appropriate, since “Holocaust” is so widely used and misused even outside of its actual meaning, but “Shoah” remained a much more precise term, and has therefore a more intensitive symbolical power than “Holocaust” ever can have.
In this way, “Shoah” is allowing also much closer connection to contemporary life and has therefore another potential for people to identify with, the latter, however is most relevant concerning encouraging people to face the darkest und most horrible side of human existence nowadays and in future.
As a Hebrew word, “SHOAH” is pointing in addition to the course of a whole people, the Jews and their disaspora all over the world for centuries, and SHOAH as the final escalation of a collective trauma, spotlighting the tragedy of countless human individuals, (not only those extermated by the Nazi), whose life was marked again and again by discrimination, persecution, progroms and expulsion, but also by preserving and saving their own identity through the centuries of a disporadic existence.
Thus, one might understand SHOAH as a topic even as a measure for the reality of a society people are living in, whether they are Jews or not.
Of course, in its narrow and wider sense SHOAH is not focussing exclusively on the statistics of Jews as dead victims, since they did not live autonomously on an island without any connection to the surrounding world, but they were a more or less integrated part of the societies they were living in, so SHOAH is primarily also pointing to the political, social, cultural and religious conditions the Jews as a minority were living in different European countries, conditions which made, however, SHOAH only possible. This is never solely a story of the victims and the perpetrators, or collaborators, but the story of all people representing a society, in so far SHOAH is incorporating very liekly even much more aspects than Holocaust.
Diaspora and migrating is not only marking Jewish history especially during the Nazi era - most Jews who were not murdered by the Nazis or their collaborators, were emigrating from Europe - but becomes nowadays more and more a global phenomenon affecting millions of people to migrate, whereby the reason for migrating is not necessarily a survival from political repression, social, religious or ethnic discrimination or genocide, but more often caused by changing economical and ecological conditions forcing people to leave their home. But this again is the start of a “circulus vitiosus” causing again and again repression, discrimination etc.
A reflective and critical person - and a film or videomaker hopefully is representing one - may recognise with an open heart and mind, that SHOAH may be anywhere and it is more contemporary than ever!
The call for entries can be found on
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1549
Already listed artists:
Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
Memory Game, 2010, 8:00
Yochai Avrahami and Karin Eliyahu (Israel)
“From the Middle to the Start”, 2009, 5:00
Bebe Beard (USA)
Capacity, 2009, 6:05
Christiano Berti (Italy)
Lety, 2009, 19:40
Isobel Blank (Italy)
If a spot of human lasts, 2009, 3:57
Paolo Bonfiglio (Italy)
Mortale, 2009, 6:48
Sean Burn (UK)
Turn the Book Around, 2009, 1:42
David R. Burns (USA)
Zikaron, 2010, 1:45
Brian Delevie (USA)
Haggadah, 2007, 13:03
Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos (Greece)
the[video]Flâneu® shoots auschwitz, 2009, 29:49
Alicia Felberbaum (UK)
Undressing Room, 2009, 4:30
Grace Graupe Pillard (USA)
Nowhere to Go, 2009, 7:00
Felice Hapetzeder (SWE)
Origin On Re-cut Trailer, 2009, 7:02
Holger Kiess (Germany)
Purane Korakori - old steps, 2007, 33:18
Anetta Kapon (USA)
My German Vocabulary, 2007, 2:09
Shon Kim (South Korea/USA)
Latent Sorrow, 2006, 3:30
Tammy Mike Laufer (Israel)
Memory of the Holocaust is not dead!, 2009, 7:05
Dana Levy (Israel)
Time with Franz, 2005, 10:00
Heike Liss & Thea Farhadian (USA)
ZeroPointTwo, 2007, 18:00
Lukas Matejka (Slovakia)
E-A = sEx and wAr, 2009. 3:04
Branko Miliskovic (Serbia)
Detention Paradise, 2009, 7:40
Jay Needham (USA)
This is a Recording, 2009, 4:29
Doris Neidl (Austria)
If this is a Man, 2009, 5:09
Miri Nishri (Israel)
Troubled Water, 2007, 12:00
Cezary Ostrowski (Poland)
The Place, 2009, 5:08
Doron Polak & Uri Dushy (Israel)
RED (1-3), 2008, 30:00
Natania Rubin (USA)
My Girl Burn, 2009, 2:54
Anne on Hades, 2009, 4:10
Jens Salander & Mikael Strömberg (Sweden)
The Colossus by the Sea, 2005, 10.00
Antti Savela (SWE)
Matka, 2009, 3:33
Daveed Shwartz (Israel)
I saw a Mountain, 2009, 5:00
Maja Schweizer (Germany)
Passing Down, Frame One, 2007, 10:30
Boris Sribar (Serbia)
I love you so much, I would kill for you, 2009, 3:50
(curated by Bojana Romic/Serbia)
Anders Weberg (SWE)
Mamo, 2008, 2:30
Yonatan Weinstein (Israel)
My Grandma - Frau Masha, 2006, 57:00
