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Tacheles - The Heart Of The Matter - Online Q&A
Online Film Conversation|International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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- Price Free, but registration is required via Eventbrite
- Part of series: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Accompanying our presentation of the film Tacheles –The Heart of the Matter in the cinema on 27 January 2022 and online from 27 – 30 January 2022 we present an online film talk with Jana Matthes, co-director of the film, and its protagonist, Yaar Harell. The discussion will be chaired by Kate Marrison, final year doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, currently writing her doctoral thesison “Digital Witness: Towards Holocaust Memory Practice in a Post-Survivor Age”. The discussion revolved around questions such as how the Holocaust continues to affect younger generations of descendants, how the memory of the Holocaust can be kept alive in current and future generations and what role computer games and other digital formats can play in this.
If you missd the conversation you can still watch it on our YouTube channel here.
More about the speakers.
Yaar Harell was born in Jerusalem and raised in a little settelment in the Westbank. At the turn of the millennium his parents and he moved to Berlin, where he spent his childhood and youth. Since his early teens he discoverd his passion for computergames, movies and his jewish heritage. Until last year he studied Intermedia Design in the city of Trier. At the moment he is working as an author and director in Berlin.
Jana Matthes works as an author, director and producer for documentary film and other documentary formats. She was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain, where she also grew up. After completing a traineeship with the television of the GDR, she studied television journalism at the University of Leipzig and completed an additional course in documentary film directing at the HFF Konrad Wolf Babelsberg (today Filmuniversität Babelsberg. Konrad Wolf). Together with Andrea Schramm she runs the film production company SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM in Berlin. She is a member of the artists' colony Wedding.
Kate Marrison is final year doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds. Her thesis, “Digital Witness: Towards Holocaust Memory Practice in a Post-Survivor Age” explores the first generation of digital Holocaust memory projects. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this work considers multiple case studies including virtual reality, augmented reality, video games and 3-dimensional installations of survivor testimony. Kate also currently lectures in film and digital media studies at the University of Leeds. Her most recent work has been published within the edited volume, Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research (Walden, 2021).
If you missd the conversation you can still watch it on our YouTube channel here.
More about the speakers.
Yaar Harell was born in Jerusalem and raised in a little settelment in the Westbank. At the turn of the millennium his parents and he moved to Berlin, where he spent his childhood and youth. Since his early teens he discoverd his passion for computergames, movies and his jewish heritage. Until last year he studied Intermedia Design in the city of Trier. At the moment he is working as an author and director in Berlin.
Jana Matthes works as an author, director and producer for documentary film and other documentary formats. She was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain, where she also grew up. After completing a traineeship with the television of the GDR, she studied television journalism at the University of Leipzig and completed an additional course in documentary film directing at the HFF Konrad Wolf Babelsberg (today Filmuniversität Babelsberg. Konrad Wolf). Together with Andrea Schramm she runs the film production company SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM in Berlin. She is a member of the artists' colony Wedding.
Kate Marrison is final year doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds. Her thesis, “Digital Witness: Towards Holocaust Memory Practice in a Post-Survivor Age” explores the first generation of digital Holocaust memory projects. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this work considers multiple case studies including virtual reality, augmented reality, video games and 3-dimensional installations of survivor testimony. Kate also currently lectures in film and digital media studies at the University of Leeds. Her most recent work has been published within the edited volume, Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research (Walden, 2021).