12.09.2022
Venue: Jerusalem Cinematheque

18:00h Opening event: Iconic Holocaust Imagery in Contemporary Visual Memory
Screening of À pas aveugles (From where they stood, France 2021) and discussion with the director Christophe Cognet
Chair: Yona Hanhart-Marmor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

13.09.2022
Venue: Mishkenot Sha'ananim Cultural & Conference Center

10:00–11:30h Panel: Migrating Images: From Visible Evidence to Visual Tropes of Atrocities

Lital Henig, Noga Stiassny (The Hebrew University) / Fabian Schmidt (Film University Babelsberg): Mediating Visual History of the Holocaust

Irina Tscherneva (CNRS-CERCEC): The migration of images in post-war trial films in the USSR

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (The Hebrew University): Stranger Things and the Holocaust

Chair: Yael Ben-Moshe (The Hebrew University)

12:00–13:00h Presentation: Playing History: Attentat 1942 and Svodoba 1945 Liberation. A Walkthrough with Vit Sisler from Charles Games (Prague, Czech Republic)
Introduction: Lital Henig, Shir Ventura (The Hebrew University): Playful Images – Analyzing Holocaust Imagery in Digital and Virtual Environments

14:00–15:30h Artist Talk
Dana Arieli (Holon Institute of Technology, Faculty of Design)
Introduction: Noga Stiassny, Shir Ventura (The Hebrew University): Artistic Representations of the Holocaust
Chair: Gal Ventura (The Hebrew University)

16:00–17:30h Discussion: Researching and Curating Holocaust Imagery and Art
Lior Alperovitch (Bezalel Academy), Michael Loebenstein (Austrian Film Museum), Mirjam Wenzel (Jewish Museum Frankfurt), Rachel E. Perry (University of Haifa)
Chair: Sema Colpan (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History)

20:00–22:00h
Venue: Jerusalem Cinematheque

Artist Talk & Screening
Gil Yefman (Trans-disciplinary Conceptual Artist)
Introduction: Noga Stiassny (The Hebrew University)
Chair: Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (The Hebrew University)

14.09.2022
Venue: Mishkenot Sha'ananim Cultural & Conference Center

09:30–10:30h Presentation: Mapping Multilayered Relations of a Migrating Image: Multimodal and Interactive Modes of Visual Research
Rasmus Greiner (University of Bremen), Noga Stiassny (The Hebrew University), Fabian Schmidt (Film University Babelsberg)
Chair: Ulrike Koppermann (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen)

10:30–11:30h Panel: Digital Resources for the Visual Memory of the Holocaust

David Kleingers (Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum): The Cinematography of the Holocaust Database

Liat Benhabib (Yad Vashem): The Yad Vashem Visual Center

Meir Russo and Hila Abraham (Israel Film Archive / Jerusalem Cinematheque): Travel back in time – The Israel Film Archive online

Chair: Anna Högner (Austrian Film Museum)

12:00–13:30h Panel: Digital HiStory Telling: The Holocaust in Digital Environments

Maya Kochavi (Stelo Stories): On Eva Stories

Marlene Wöckinger (Mauthausen Memorial): Holocaust Memory on YouTube and TikTok

Stephanie Billib (Bergen-Belsen Memorial): On Memory in the Digital Age

Nicole Steng (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial): On The Liberation AR and ARt

Chair: Amit Pinchevski (The Hebrew University)

14:30–15:00h Presentation: Memification of the Holocaust
Julia Wittorf, Tom Divon (The Hebrew University)

15:00–16:00h Discussion: Hijacked Images: The Use and Misuse of Iconic Images in the Digital Age
Paul Frosh (The Hebrew University), Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (The Hebrew University), Victoria Grace Walden (University of Sussex)

18:00–20:00h
Venue: Jerusalem Cinematheque

Presentation: Exploring the Visual History of the Holocaust: A Visit to a New Digital Infrastructure
Ingo Zechner (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History), Helmut Berger (max.recall information systems, Vienna)
Chair: Michael Loebenstein (Austrian Film Museum)