Conference: Un|Covering: Cinematography of the Holocaust, DHI Warschau
The Deutsch Historisches Institut, Warschau invites to a international conference on UnCovering. Visibility, Denial, and Ambiguity in the Cinematography of the Holocaust in Łódź, Poland from November 30, 2026 to December 02, 2026. All contributions that examine how films from and about the Holocaust negotiate practices of covering and uncovering across different historical stages. Perpetrators’ claims of not having known or seen, survivors’ silence and suppression of traumatic memories, and later pedagogical debates about the use of explicit images all point to the persistence of visual and narrative limits. Films may expose atrocity while simultaneously deflecting attention, contain violence through narrative framing, or offer indirect forms of address that enable both confrontation and distance.
The conference will be organized in cooperation with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Zentrum Jüdischer Film & Audiovisuelles Erinnern, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital History, Deutsches Filminstitut Filmmuseum, Centrum Badań Żydowskich Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Filmu i Mediów Audiwizualnych Instytut Kultury Współczesnej Wydział Filologiczny UŁ.
Deadline for proposals: July 30, 2026| DETAILS
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