#uploading_holocaust Film Premiere and Roundtable Discussion on Memory, Dark Tourism and Art in the Digital Age Event

Join the Parkes Institute for the UK premiere of the documentary film #uploading_holocaust and a round table discussion about memory, dark tourism and art in the digital age.

#uploading_holocaust, directed by Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein, is composed of video clips and YouTube footage filmed by Israeli youth during their educational 'Journey to Poland’. It offers a unique point of view of a new generation, while revealing a moving and troubling image of the way collective memory is formed in the age of social media. The movie will be made free to stream between April 8-15, and a roundtable event featuring the film's director as well as experts in Holocaust studies and of memory in the digital age, will be held on April 13th.

Speaker information

Udi Nir, writer, director, and producer. His first feature documentary was #uploading_holocaust (2016), followed by GOLDA (2019).  Before turning to documentary film Udi was a playwright, a theatre and dance producer and worked for Amnesty International and other human rights NGOs.

Dr Meghan Lundrigan, a History scholar with focus on dark tourism, YouTube, and memory. Lundrigan recently collaborated on the book Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape. She is a History Research Associate with Know History Inc.

Dr Jackie Feldman, a Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University and author of Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity.

Chair:

Dr James Jordan, University of Southampton, Parkes Institute of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations.

Registration

Please note this is a free event but please register by clicking on the link above, you will then receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.