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מסדר עולמי - ראיון עם אמנית וידאו ארט מיכל רובנר

ראיון עם אמנית וידאו ארט מיכל רובנר על מיצג הוידאו ארט "נוף חיים" מאת האמנית מיכל רובנר ומוצג דרך קבע במוזיאון יד ושם החדש. היצירה המבוססת על חומר מקורי משוחזר המתעד את חיי היום יום של יהודים במקומות שונים באירופה לפני השואה מוקרנת על קיר של 13 מטר המהווה את המשולש המזרחי של מבנה המוזאון.

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 4

Language : Hebrew

Arthur Szyk - Soldier in Art

This film documents the introduction of the artist, activist, and World War II political caricaturist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) to a group of students and teachers at Mercer Island High School in Seattle, Washington. Irvin Ungar, curator of The Arthur Szyk Society, encourages the students to share their reaction to work that is as vivid, profound, and worthy of discussion today as it was when it was created.

Director : James Ruxin

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 15

Language : English

The World Was Ours - The Jewish Legacy of Vilna

This documentary looks at pre-war Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) the former home of 60,000 Jews and the once thriving centre of Yiddish culture, the birthplace of Zionism and of the socialist Jewish Bund organization. The film focuses on the systematic extermination of Wilno'ss Jewish population. Narrated by Hollywood’s Mandy Patinkin.

Director : Mira Jedwabnik-Van Doren

Production Year : 2006

Duration : 60

Language : English

Memories of Berlin - Twilight of Weimar Culture

During the brief period of 15 years following the WWI and ending with the rise to power of Hitler in 1933, despite economic and political upheavals, Berlin the newly emancipated capital of the Weimar Republic, attracted artistic and scientific talents from all over the country of this century not only for moral freedom, but also for artistic freedom. This film, based on interviews and archival materials, tells of the twilights of this unique and flourishing point in time in the cultural history of Germany.

Director : Gary Conklin

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 72

Language : English

Dance of Death: Cabaret in the Concentration Camps

Based on testimonies, commentaries, archival materials, this documentary explores an exceptional phenomenon in the Nazi concentration camps: cabaret performances that were held by the prisoners to entertainment of the SS.

Director : Volker Kuehn

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 28

Language : German

The Seven Gates of Shelomo Selinger - Drancy, the Gate of Death

A short documentary about the French aculptor of Polish origins and Holocaust Survivor, Shlomo Selinger, who sculpted a memorial monument at the transit camp Dranci, near Paris.

Director : Alain Braun

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 13

Language : French

Famine Disease

The Warsaw ghetto in the early 1940’s. Inside the walls there was a huge lack of food. According to the rationing orders Jews got a quarter of what Germans did. In reality Jews got a tenth of what is needed to stay alive. The ghetto that was mangled by famine soon grew into a giant laboratory – a continuous human experiment in the search for the boundaries of human capacity. The Jewish doctors and scientists not only treated those close to them but also made pioneering science solving the mechanisms of starvation. The heritage of the research is unbelievable evidence of how under so much physical submission and...

Director : Jarmo Jääskeläinen

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 27

Language : Polish

The Fear of Felix Nussbaum

German-Jewish Felix Nussbaum was born in Osnabrueck, Germany, and studied in Hamburg, Berlin and Rome. He and his companion, Felka Platek, settled in Belgium in 1935. In 1940, he was arrested with all other aliens and sent to the camps of Saint Cyprien and Gurs in southern France. Nussbaum managed to escape, and lived in hiding in Brussels until he was caught in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz, where he perished. This documentary intents to serve as a guide to the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabruck as well as to remind that within Germany today many are committed to memorializing the Holocaust. Exploring many of...

Director : Jack Kuper

Production Year : 2000

Duration : 52

Language : English, German

The Memory Project: Installation by Artist Rosalyn Jacobs

This unique documentary tells the story of Roz Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor and a New York City-based painter who lives part of the year in south France. The film, presented parted into 9 "windows", each shows different content, explores in this original mode Jacobs life during the Holocaust and her art today. She has created a series of paintings and works on paper based on Jean Ingres’ "The Turkish Bath." In France she paints local landscapes. Rosalyn, whose works exhibited in galleries and museums in the US, France, England, Israel, Germany, Russia and Japan, began her formal study of art at Binghamton...

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 13

Language : English

In Memory

n this non-narrative short, footage of life from the Lodz Ghetto is juxtaposed against the chanting of "Kel Maleh Rachamim," a plea to God to let the souls of those "slaughtered and burned" find peace. Images include winter street scenes, women drawing water from a well, men breaking up ice, a Nazi roundup and a mass hanging. The message of this tribute to members of Ravett's family (and to all those who perished under Nazi occupation) is "may their memory endure

Director : Abraham Ravett

Production Year : 1993

Duration : 13

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