Famous Swiss filmmaker to visit UA
Jessica Burk
Issue date: 4/21/08 Section: News
The famous Swiss filmmaker Dr. Walo Deuber is coming to the UA Tuesday, April 22 to talk about his Holocaust documentary "Fading Traces." The event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Arkansas Union Theater.
"[Afterwards] we will have time [for people to] ask the director questions and comment [on the film]," said Jennifer Hoyer, UA assistant professor of German. The question and answer session will last until seven and will be followed by a catered reception. The German program organized Deuber's visit and the Multicultural Center is financing the visit.
The film takes place in the Ukraine. "'Fading Traces' brings together the witnesses of the present with those of the past," according to fadingtraces.com.
"In a fascinating, spell-binding landscape, an exchange of memories takes place between the witnesses still alive and those who, through their writings and music, long ago fashioned a memorial to the largest ever Jewish cosmos - right there in the heart of Europe," according to fadingtraces.com
"Survivors have had to stifle their memories in decades of solitude in the Soviet Ukraine. Now, for the first time, Esther and Michail Bartik in Tulchyn, Genija Burmenko and Raissa Tamara Halperina in Berdichev speak openly about it - about what they went through and how they lost their parents, their brothers and sisters, and their neighbours," according to Doc Productions GmBH.
??While the film is a Holocaust documentary, "it's not like a lot of Holocaust documentaries. [Dr. Walo Deuber] is very adamant to point out that there are no pictures of the past. The pictures of the people, landscapes are all in the present. It's all got something to do with the Jewish community in eastern and central Europe before and after the Nazi regime," Hoyer said.
The film shows only contemporary images because the topic is memory specific. Not relics or artifacts. It's memories of the people and the way they appear now, she said.
"[Afterwards] we will have time [for people to] ask the director questions and comment [on the film]," said Jennifer Hoyer, UA assistant professor of German. The question and answer session will last until seven and will be followed by a catered reception. The German program organized Deuber's visit and the Multicultural Center is financing the visit.
The film takes place in the Ukraine. "'Fading Traces' brings together the witnesses of the present with those of the past," according to fadingtraces.com.
"In a fascinating, spell-binding landscape, an exchange of memories takes place between the witnesses still alive and those who, through their writings and music, long ago fashioned a memorial to the largest ever Jewish cosmos - right there in the heart of Europe," according to fadingtraces.com
"Survivors have had to stifle their memories in decades of solitude in the Soviet Ukraine. Now, for the first time, Esther and Michail Bartik in Tulchyn, Genija Burmenko and Raissa Tamara Halperina in Berdichev speak openly about it - about what they went through and how they lost their parents, their brothers and sisters, and their neighbours," according to Doc Productions GmBH.
??While the film is a Holocaust documentary, "it's not like a lot of Holocaust documentaries. [Dr. Walo Deuber] is very adamant to point out that there are no pictures of the past. The pictures of the people, landscapes are all in the present. It's all got something to do with the Jewish community in eastern and central Europe before and after the Nazi regime," Hoyer said.
The film shows only contemporary images because the topic is memory specific. Not relics or artifacts. It's memories of the people and the way they appear now, she said.
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