screening of Ukrainian Holocaust film at USC

[Furman, Yelena]

Dear list members,
I know we get a lot of postings for events on the East Coast -- here's one for those of us out West.  
I'm posting this on behalf of someone else, so if anyone has any questions, please get in touch either with Crispin Brooks or the listed email contact directly.
Best, Yelena Furman
 
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Captured on Film: Cultural Stereotypes and Public Memory
Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 4:30pm
University of Southern California
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre
 
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute will present a screening of its most recent documentary, Spell Your Name, followed by a discussion addressing issues of cultural stereotypes and the complexity of the public memorialization of massacres that took place during the Holocaust in Ukraine. 
 
Artfully crafted by internationally acclaimed film director Sergey Bukovsky, Spell Your Name features testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses from the Institutes archive along with new footage shot on location in Ukraine. USC history professor Wolf Gruner will moderate the discussion following the screening with filmmaker Sergey Bukovsky, USC cinematic arts professor Michael Renov and USC Shoah Foundation Institute curator Crispin Brooks.
 
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
For further information or to RSVP, please contact mirafuen at usc.edu or (213) 740-2950.
 
 
 
 
 
Crispin Brooks
Curator 
Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
University of Southern California
Tel: (213) 740-5463
Email: crispinb at usc.edu 
Archive website: 
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/vha 
Institute website: 
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/ 


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