#uploading_holocaust
Synopsis
Thousands of young Israelis join “the journey to Poland” each year to learn about the Holocaust. Looking into the journey through the videos they upload on YouTube reveals a moving and troubling image about the way the collective memory is formed in the web age.
Credits
Director(s)
Udi Nir & Sagi Bornstein
Producer(s)
Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein, Christiane Beetz
Script
Udi Nir & Sagi Bornstein
Cinematography
composed entirely of YouTube clips
Editor
Gal Goffer, Sagi Bornstein
Original Music
Uri Agnon
Original Language
Hebrew
Subtitles
English, German, Hebrew
Produced with the help of:
NFCT, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
Broadcaster
Keshet, BR, ORF, RBB
Photo Credit
Yali Ziv
Festival Highlights
Krakow International Film Festival, Poland, 2017
Dok Leipzig International Film Festival, Germany, 2016
Reviews
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The real feat is how the filmmakers shaped such an engaging documentary distillation and composition out of this massive material. The film doesn’t explain, but shows and juxtaposes, leaving room to explore through roughly a three-step content development from information, to reflection, to increasing emotion. POV Magazine, Jutta Brendemühl
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A fantastic, formally daring documentary, and a chilling and troubling commentary on the ways in which collective Israeli Jewish identity is formed in response to the #Holocaust. Facebook, Mark Swolowitz
