Thanks to the curator and the support of the Jewish Culture 2028 project the publication introduced by a pop-up exhibition, that included a workshop led by Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop and a Tubisvat seder in Auróra.
The exhibition presents Zsófia Kormos designer’s doctorate research, the visual materials of the future implementation plans, as well as the works of the invited artists reflecting on the topic.
The taboo and stigmatization associated with menstruation is still a global problem. The purpose of the exhibition is to visualize this with the help of visual tools and to give visitors the opportunity to interact. It is also an important message to draw attention to the social situation of menstrual poverty in Hungary. That’s why we also created this page where we collect donations for NEM! – Nők Egymásért Mozgalom (Women For Eachother Movement) a movement whose activities include helping young women in need who can’t afford sanitary towels and other healthcare products necessary to maintain a minimum level of everyday hygiene. fundraiser campaign
Participating artists: Szilvia Bolla, EJTECH, Gábor Karcis, Anna Zsófia Kormos, Rozália Szeleczki
Curator: Andrea Ausztrics
Communication Manager, Press: Dora Pelczer
27th-28th June 2019 at 2B Gallery
Date: 20 August – 27 September 2018
The exhibition presents a family photo collection that was found in a trash can of the artist’s apartment building in Budapest. The 11 photos and 3 zines tell us what was happening in Hungary between 1950 and 1975. The story of the family is a mystery; the artist has intentionally not searched on their identity. The discarded photos do not belong to the family anymore, so finding the collection offered a new opportunity to create an alternative story by the publications.
According to the artist’s concept, at the end of the exhibition the photos remain at Budapest Cukrászda Cafe to pass the photos onto a new owner.
The three zines:
At the lake – discovers the vacation activities at lake Balaton
Family events – presents important family events such as a wedding, first day at school, moving or traveling in the country and abroad
Woman and Man – a zine that can be started on both sides, presents the story of the family from the perspective of the woman and the man separately
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Woman and Man – Man and woman is the 3rd part from a trilogy that unfold stories from a couple of hundreds photos that found in the trash. The family photos made between the beginning of 1950 to the late 1970 and tell a lot of stories in the socialist times through the eyes of an unknown talented amateur photographer. Besides the strong historical memories and objects that reflect on this time-period the photos also represent a timeless beauty and harmony.
Woman and Man – Man and Woman is a two-sided zine, with two stories inside that meet in the middle, when the woman and the man are together in a photo. The aim of the publication was to show how the photos and photographical scenes were different for women and men still in the 50s – 70s.
The 1st part of the trilogy collects the photos of the typical family vacation at the lake Balaton in Hungary, while the 2nd part of the trilogy highlights the photos and details or part of the photos that reflect on the historical memories through family events.
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Family events is the 2nd part from a trilogy that unfold stories from a couple of hundreds photos that found in the trash. The family photos made between the beginning of 1950 to the late 1970 and tell a lot of visual stories in the socialist times through the eyes of an unknown talented amateur photographer. Besides the strong historical memories and objects that reflect on this time-period the photos also represent a timeless beauty and harmony.
Family events present important family events such as a wedding, first day at school, moving or traveling in the country and abroad through a series of archive photos from the 50s-70s. There are events were important in the life of a family in the socialist period which completed with uncommon photos that not every families would eternalize.
The 1st part of the trilogy collects the photos of the typical family vacation at the lake Balaton in Hungary, while the 3rd part of the trilogy is a selection of the photos that deals with gender perspectives.
Date: 7 August – 5 September
The exhibition is based on the complex expression “lieu de memoire” (site of memory) was introduced by the French historian Pierre Nora to address the difference between memory and history. He was inspired by the Latin term “loci memoriae”, a method of memory enhancement that uses familiar places to recall information. In the words of Nora: ”a lieu de memoire’ is any significant entity, whether material or non-material in nature, which by dint of human will or the work of time has become a symbolic element of the memorial heritage of any community.” He states that this is where memory becomes graspable and herein, the continuity of history can be perceived. By its nature, this method is linked to emotions, therefore it selective.
My installation in the exhibition deals with various social activities during socialist times around Lake Balaton through the rearrangement of a series of photographs from the 1960’s. Because I wanted to bring the different layers of history about the same place I exhibited a typical wall paper, table and chare from the 60s, and a video work about my own childhood with my parent’s stories as a voiceover.
]]>The topic can be traced back to the Old Testament when people lived in a Monotheistic tribal alliance and the legal term of this alliance was social solidarity. The Ten Commandments can be found in the Torah, the Five Books of Moses as well in the Bible, which is intended to record in writing the social norms. Violation of these commandments is called sin. The seven deadly sins are the sins that lead us to the violation of the Ten Commandments.
The seven deadly sins are: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth.
The fundamental element of the Christian-Jewish culture is the assumption of the fall of the first couple and the assumption of sin resulting from the existence of man, since the notion of sin is primarily not a matter of faith but a moral case.
The 7 virtues are the opposite of the seven deadly sins that seven artists reflect on with seven ideas in this exhibition. The invited artists could choose one of the seven deadly sins and they gave a personal meaning to the contradiction of the chosen one. These personalised oppositions were the principle of the works by the seven artists.
Participating artists: Viola Fátyol, Gábor Garai, Kata Geibl, Luka Kostil, András Ladocsi, Hanna Rédling, Éva Szombat
Curator: Andrea Ausztrics
7virtues exhibition press and photos
]]>The complex expression “lieu de memoire” (site of memory) was introduced by the French historian Pierre Nora to address the difference between memory and history. He was inspired by the Latin term “loci memoriae”, a method of memory enhancement that uses familiar places to recall information. In the words of Nora: …”a lieu de memoire’ is any significant entity, whether material or non material in nature, which by dint of human will or the work of time has become a symbolic element of the memorial heritage of any community.” He states that this is where memory becomes graspable and herein, the continuity of history can be perceived. By its nature, this method is linked to emotions, therefore it selective. Double Chin Corp. has created a four-piece zine set based on this concept.
Andrea Ausztrics’ zine deals with various social activities during Socialist times around Lake Balaton through the rearrangement of a series of photographs from the 1960’s by an unknown amateur photographer.
Flóra Pálhegyi’s piece is an attempt to save the memories of the artist’s father and grandfather about the airport in Szombathely via the medium of drawing.
Attila Somos captured Óbuda in a flipbook in order to compress all the years he has spent living there into a single moment.
Balázs Varju Tóth’s put the relation of churches and pubs of the Hungarian countryside under scrutiny on his postcards. As these two are venues for socializing and devotion.
]]>The 2nd part of the trilogy highlights the photos and details or part of the photos that reflect on the historical memories through family events, while the 3rd part of the trilogy is a selection of the photos that deals with gender perspectives.
at the lake review and the description from the zine:
Lake Balaton is the largest lake in Central Europe and a popular domestic tourism center for vacationing Hungarian families. At the lake zine introduces everyday life at Lake Balaton, the “Hungarian Sea”, through a family photo series. The photos are part of a series found in public garbage bin and were taken between 1958 and 1972 on the lakeshore. Similarly to my family, this unknown family spent the summers with their only child at Zamárdi. We both experienced the institution of socialist holidays – 30 years apart.
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LOGLINE: The unlikely encounter and tragedy of two contrasting worlds.
There is a place divided by light and shadow. The two opposing worlds are represented by two characters who, despite their differences, become interested in each other. This rapport is, however, soon destroyed by reality that doesn’t allow bonds between the two worlds.
Through the story of these two characters, the film intends to emphasize the importance of tolerance and the acceptance of others. In the film’s narrative, Nil, a boarder guard of the bright side has to face a tragedy while he is on patrol: his partner is murdered by a group of vandals from the dark side. Nil is unable to help: he is petrified by fear of the enemy’s power. A rescue party from the bright side comes to save him before he’d fall prey to another attack. During the battle, he catches a glimpse of a girl who accidentally drops something in the midst of all the commotion. Nil finds this object, and his curiosity propels him to take it home, which leads to a series of events. Fa and Nil’s subsequent encounter is also the symbolic meeting of two worlds, which has unforeseen consequences.
Through the encounter of “good” and “bad”, the film outlines a classic scenario, which later reveals that instead of different values, it is more about different perspectives. The story offers no universal truths, it doesn’t tell us who to side with, and it doesn’t even claim that love would resolve conflict. It implies instead that truth is somewhere between the two worlds, in their synthesis and in their subtleties. Both the viewer and the characters have to find these within themselves. The film’s title also symbolizes this idea: kvagga, a type of zebra that has been extinct for 130 years, had black-and-white stripes that gradually dissolved into a more homogenous color on its back.
The film was inspired by William Golding’s novel The Inheritors and Alex Webb’s photography, both of which enriched the characters and the two imaginary worlds.
Lets celebrate Hanukkah together with the Home exhibition! Please arrive promptly at 6pm because we need to light the candles. Rabbi Ariel Pollak from Berlin will give a speech after the candle lightening about home and Hanukkah. Don’t miss out!
About the exhibition:
This group exhibition – photo, video and sound installations by young Hungarian and foreign artists – explores the theme of home. A physical segment of space that we appropriate for ourselves and an idea that is hard to define in an objective manner: this is home. The exhibiting artists reflect upon this by emphasizing a certain meaning and the appearance of the word in different languages. Themes reappearing in the works, both in the literal and abstract sense of the word, are the desire to build a home, lack of a home and leaving home for another place. Homeland, address of residence, family, property and the void we are looking to fill are all possible synonyms of the word.
Exhibiting Artists: Éva Szombat, Zsuzsi Flohr, Chantal Meng, Mihály Fazekas, Esteban De La Torre, Balázs Varju Tóth, Andrea Ausztrics
Curator: Andrea Ausztrics
The exhibition open between 12 – 31 of December.
The exhibition and the event funded by The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Supermarket Gallery and the Paideia Institute.
Exhibitions:
Jerusalem Biennale, 8 September – 19 November, 2017
Klezkanada Jewish Festival, August 2016
White Box, New York, 7-21 April, 2016
585,000 m2 proposes a dialogue about the symbolic spaces found in the Jewish Quarter of the 7th district in Budapest through visual art statements from the pre-World War 2 period to the present. The title is a reference to the surface area of the Quarter, a dense urban neighborhood overflowing with signifiers of cultural, religious and social life. Nine buildings were selected to explore three important aspects of Jewish life: the sacred spaces, public places and local businesses.
The curators invited nine young Hungarian artists to reflect upon select buildings aiming to research and relate their stories. The artists were to use visual media to mediate between past and present, history and art, artist and society. The mixed media and conceptual installations serve as visual manifestos to show the audience the history-defying existence of the Quarter, where Jews and non-Jews converge again.
The diversity of the Quarter is mirrored in the variegated techniques and approaches used by the participating artists. The contributors, coming from diverse personal and artistic backgrounds, used different scenarios and strategies in their works, expressing their own cultural and personal memories in this project. Each video is a representation of an artistic vision from the present while at the same time being an abstract reflection on the history and the function of the spaces. Through the past decade this Quarter has transformed itself enormously becoming the bright spot it is today, which has helped forming the identity and character of a new generation that includes the artists of this exhibition.
Mixing archival and contemporary frames alongside individual video works and music, the exhibition invites the audience to step into the Quarter and to experience the unique portrayals of these spaces. The representation of the layers of history suggest pathways to the acceptance and adoption of the past by a new generation.
Participating artists: Zsuzsi Flohr, Zsófia Szemző, Márton Szirmai, Dániel Halász, István Illés, Levente Csordás in collaboration with Airplan X Kickass Factory, Balázs Varju Tóth, Mátyás Csiszár, Milán Kopasz along with Csaba Kalotás (music) and Éva Szombat (photography).
]]>I miss the mountains from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
This video tells the story of a woman who, after a scholarship in New York, decided not to return to her life as a successful graphic designer in Switzerland, but to enroll on a Phd program and continue her research at the Goldsmiths University in London. Her home is a blue boat which she has to navigate into a different part of town each fortnight as required by the regulations of the city.
The video material for this exhibition was recorded on the day of her first move with the widebeam canal boat, and the audio is a conversation on being home and constantly on the move. The artist adds her visual reflections – montage-like images of instant homes and wanderings – to complement documenting the boat on the move.
6:21 min., in English
The video work was part of the Home exhibition.
]]>The exhibition took place at Supermarket Gallery Magic Window Project where DEPIzine is still purchasable with postcards.
The Arm Museum of Hungarian Air Defense is the sole air defense base still in its original state from the era before the change of regime. The exhibition is staged in one of the buildings of this complex, which creates a unique atmosphere for the works of art. The images set on these concrete walls together with the videos and the sound installations are even more meaningful in these surroundings.
HOME exhibition installation from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
Images by three artists, Zsuzsi Flohr, Éva Szombat and Chantal Meng, are put on display in the first room.
We chose five photos from the series by Zsuzsi Flohr from the 2005 – 2013 period. These works of the artist, residing in Vienna, deal with searching for a home, objects and memories relating to home during her travels.
The images by Éva Szombat provide a glimpse into the everyday live of a family that is about to grow. The role of Jewish religious objects is looked at in mundane situations reflecting on the meaning of the word ‘bájit’ (home in Hebrew).
Chantal Meng, an artist from Switzerland currently living in London, reveals the locally specific meaning of ‘heimat’ (home in German) through her personal documentary photographs defining the meaning of home linked to sensory experiences.
The last piece of work in the first room is a sound installation by Esteban De La Torre and Mihály Fazekas. De La Torre, an artist from Mexico living in Budapest, and his Hungarian co-creator invoke those moments that conjure up fond memories of the places where our soul finds peace.
In the second room two video pieces are shown. Andrea Ausztrics documents the first moving of a widebeam canal boat in London while the installation created by Balázs Varju Tóth evokes a living room lifted from reality, at the center of which a television is placed with the broadcast illustrating the lack of homeliness.
Artists:
Ausztrics Andrea I Fazekas Mihály I Flohr Zsuzsi I Chantal Meng I Szombat Éva I Esteban De La Torre Varju Tóth Balázs
Curator: Ausztrics Andrea
Sponsored by the Paideia The European Jewish Institute in Sweden and Supermarket Gallery
The exhibiton was part of an Art Festival in Zsámbék, Hungary with a Köztársaság (Republic) theatre play and film screenings that reflected on the topic of home and homelessness.
Made by: Andrea Ausztrics, Kata M. Kállai, Zsuzsa Kállai, Lisa Jura, Flóra Pálhegyi, Attila Somos, Fanni Solymár, Karen Solymár, Tamás “Lavor” Komár, Balázs Varju Tóth
Printing House: Doublechin Corp.
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Shalekhet from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
16th October, 2016 I visited the Jewish Museum in Berlin. I walked through the Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) installation of Menashe Kaddishman. The noise of the iron faces hurt my ears a lot and I was thinking if I would change the noise under the “walking trough” experiment how it would change my experience of walking on these metaphorical victims. I decided to record the experiment and edit another noise/music under it. I used the song Les Choristes – ‘Vois Sur Ton Chemin’ (Look to your path). I used the first three verse:
Vois sur ton chemin / Gamins oubliés égarés / Donne-leur la main / Pour les mener / Vers d’autres lendemains
Sens au coeur de la nuit / L’onde d’espoir / Ardeur de la vie / Sentier de gloire
Bonheurs enfantins / Trop vite oubliés effacés / Une lumière dorée brille sans fin / Tout au bout du chemin
Sens au coeur de la nuit…
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Look out on your path / Children who are lost and who have been forgotten / Lend them a hand / And lead them / Towards another future
Feel in the middle of the night / A surge of hope / The indefatigability of life / The Road to glory
Childish happiness / Erased and forgotten too fast /A golden light shines forever / And the end of the road
Feel in the middle of the night…
Shalekhet Vois Sur Ton Chemin from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>Silent Heroes – Helpers and rescuers during WWII and their representation today was a 2 years collaboration of the mentioned institutes and I had the opportunity to create this documentary as a site specific film for a walking tour organised by BUPAP. What does it mean site specific? The uniqueness of this film is that we only screen it at that specific location where Kuntich Etelka, the nun used to pray in the building which was a monastery at that time and the participants of the tour are walking through the stairs and the corridor where the decision being made who is a survival and who is not.
The film with English subtitles:
The first screening of the film for the Grundtvig participants was at May, 2015. The first public event was at October, 2016 with around 60 people and since then we have screenings with 20-100 people in every occasion.
The walk starts in the daylight and brings the participants to the darkness. The concept to use the light is a metaphor that reflects on the history of Svábhegy (Swabian mountains – XII. district of Budapest) that starts with a happy resettlement and ends with the Holocaust and the closure of the monastery. The following video shows the visual concept of the walking from daylight to the complete darkness.
Other screenings:
November 3, 2016 – Intermedia Department, The Hungarian University of Fine Arts
October 28, 2016 – National University of Public Service, integrated in the walk of the Spirits of the Swabian Mountains (Svábhegy)
May 31, 2015 – Limmud Wien, Vienna, Austria
May 3, 2015 – Paideia Alumni Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
September 2017 walk and screening
Exhibitions:
Stockholm, The Bait, February 2019
Budapest, Csányi5 Jewish Historical Museum, 15 December 2018 – 20 January 2019
Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Biennale, 8 September – 19 November, 2017
Montreal, Klezkanada Jewish Festival, August 2016
New York, White Box, 7-21 April, 2016
585,000 m2 proposes a dialogue about the symbolic spaces found in the Jewish Quarter of the 7th district in Budapest through visual art statements from the pre-World War 2 period to the present. The title is a reference to the surface area of the Quarter, a dense urban neighborhood overflowing with signifiers of cultural, religious and social life. Nine buildings were selected to explore three important aspects of Jewish life: the sacred spaces, public places and local businesses.
The curators invited nine young Hungarian artists to reflect upon select buildings aiming to research and relate their stories. The artists were to use visual media to mediate between past and present, history and art, artist and society. The mixed media and conceptual installations serve as visual manifestos to show the audience the history-defying existence of the Quarter, where Jews and non-Jews converge again.
The diversity of the Quarter is mirrored in the variegated techniques and approaches used by the participating artists. The contributors, coming from diverse personal and artistic backgrounds, used different scenarios and strategies in their works, expressing their own cultural and personal memories in this project. Each video is a representation of an artistic vision from the present while at the same time being an abstract reflection on the history and the function of the spaces. Through the past decade this Quarter has transformed itself enormously becoming the bright spot it is today, which has helped forming the identity and character of a new generation that includes the artists of this exhibition.
Mixing archival and contemporary frames alongside individual video works and music, the exhibition invites the audience to step into the Quarter and to experience the unique portrayals of these spaces. The representation of the layers of history suggest pathways to the acceptance and adoption of the past by a new generation.
Participating artists: Zsuzsi Flohr, Zsófia Szemző, Márton Szirmai, Dániel Halász, István Illés, Levente Csordás in collaboration with Airplan X Kickass Factory, Balázs Varju Tóth, Mátyás Csiszár, Milán Kopasz along with Csaba Kalotás (music) and Éva Szombat (photography).
photos of the Jerusalem Biennale
photos of the White Box, New York exhibition
585,000 m2 exhibition installation from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
585,000 m2 exhibition intro film from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
Press:
International: JEUMAG
American:
Hungarian:
TV: Tv2 – Tények
Radio: Kossuth, Tilos
Online: Origo, 444.hu, We love Budapest, Szombat magazin, Fidelio, Librarius, Hirolvasó, Hírzóna, EPOC, hírek.ma, Magyar Idők
]]>Landscapes and sounds of the West Coast from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>journey to the angel from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>Thanks to this opportunity I was part of an international group meetings in Amsterdam, Hohenems, Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest. Through this journey I learned and experienced a lot as a historian and also as a filmmaker. This opportunity inspired me to create a short video for each of the locations where I was. Every piece reflects on an exact place, square, river, monument or memorial where the time and history stamped in, but a lot of people do not even know about it. Most of these places had a nice, culturally vivid past, that changed under the Holocaust. The aims of the videos are to create attention on the present and the future of this places.
AMSTERDAM – CASTRUM PEREGRINI
This video is about the story of Castrum Peregrini, a safe house from WWII, where art and friendship played a crucial role to survive.
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Silent Hero Amsterdam Castrum Peregrini from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>Thanks to this opportunity I was part of an international group meetings in Amsterdam, Hohenems, Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest. Through this journey I learned and experienced a lot as a historian and also as a filmmaker. This opportunity inspired me to create a short video for each of the locations where I was. Every piece reflects on an exact place, square, river, monument or memorial where the time and history stamped in, but a lot of people do not even know about it. Most of these places had a nice, culturally vivid past, that changed under the Holocaust. The aims of the videos are to create attention on the present and the future of this places.
AMSTERDAM
This video is about a monument and war memorial in Amsterdam what used to be a theatre once.
Silent Heroes Amsterdam from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>FAM from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
A film by Márton Vécsei, Nóra Lakos, Daphne Samaras, Júlia Széphelyi, Andrea Ausztrics, Miklós Mendrei, Márton Szirmai and Pater Sparrow.
Tagline: A Hungarian poet who died in the Holocaust has been personified through his life and poetry by eight Hungarian directors’ own contemporary vision of everyday life and struggles.
Synopsis: The Dead Poet – 7 Tales of Miklós Radnóti is a sketch-film that focuses on the famous Hungarian poet’s life through eight Hungarian director’s eyes. Each story combines an original work of the poet and the young talent’s own special genre that gives a unique journey for the viewers. Seven different type of storytelling and period of lifetime recall the importance and greatness of Radnoti’s constantly struggling plight.
Role: creative producer and segment director of FAM
Year: 2015
Festivals:
world premier: June 1, 2016 15th Transilvania International Film Festival Septermber 2, 2017 14th BuSho International Short Film Festival
November 20, 2016 1st Filmette Film Festival, New York
August 15, 2016 Norwich Radical Film Festival, Norwich, UK
3rd Equality Film Festival, Kiev
Júlia Széphelyi, the director of Holy Night segment talks about her ideas and personal connection of the topic (in Hungarian).
The making of the Patience that Blossoms into Death with director Pater Sparrow.
]]>Thanks to this opportunity I was part of an international group meetings in Amsterdam, Hohenems, Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest. Through this journey I learned and experienced a lot as a scholar and also as a filmmaker. This opportunity inspired me to create a short video for each of the locations where I was. Every piece reflects on an exact place, square, river, monument or memorial where the time and history stamped in, but a lot of people do not even know about it. Most of these places had once a nice, culturally vivid past, that changed under the Holocaust. The aims of the videos are to create attention on the present and the future of this places.
BUDAPEST
The memorial to the victims of the German occupation is intended to restore the memory of those people who died in Hungary in 1944. The government decided to establish the monument on 31 December 2013. The Hungarian Jewish Communities Association (MAZSIHISZ) protested against it, saying that the concept suggests that Hungary was an innocent victim. This states also that Hungarian authorities have not provided effective assistance after the occupation of the country for nearly half a million Jews in death camps deportation. On 22 January, the Fifth District representative body gave consent to create the monument, so from 9 February MAZSIHISZ boycotted the Holocaust memorial year. The protesters named “Living Memory” (Eleven Emlékmű) created an exhibition with objects, photographs, copies of letters and placed stones. On the night of July 20, the police cleared out and closed the Freedom Square, then placed under police protection, and raised the statue. “Instead of lies, honest confrontation!” The team of Living Memory requests this for more than a year.
Silent Heroes Budapest from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>Thanks to this opportunity I was part of an international group meetings in Amsterdam, Hohenems, Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest. Through this journey I learned and experienced a lot as a historian and also as a filmmaker. This opportunity inspired me to create a short video for each of the locations where I was. Every piece reflects on an exact place, square, river, monument or memorial where the time and history stamped in, but a lot of people do not even know about it. Most of these places had a nice, culturally vivid past, that changed under the Holocaust. The aims of the videos are to create attention on the present and the future of this places.
WARSAW
The video reflect on the current situation of the non-exhisting “Monument May Be a Forest” monument about the Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust.
Silent Heroes Warsaw from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>Production year: 2015
Role: Producer
Director: Gábor Takács
DOP: Eszter Csepeli ]]>
Thanks to this opportunity I was part of an international group meetings in Amsterdam, Hohenems, Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest. Through this journey I learned and experienced a lot as a historian and also as a filmmaker. This opportunity inspired me to create a short video for each of the locations where I was. Every piece reflects on an exact place, square, river, monument or memorial where the time and history stamped in, but a lot of people do not even know about it. Most of these places had a nice, culturally vivid past, that changed under the Holocaust. The aims of the videos are to create attention on the present and the future of this places.
BERLIN
“Here in the former Supreme Headquarters of the Army, Germans organised the attempt of 20 July 1944 to end the Nazi rule of injustice. For this, they sacrificed their lives. The Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Berlin created this new memorial place in the year 1980.” The naked man sculpture marks the place where the conspirators were executed. In front of the statue, on the ground, there is a plaque that says:
You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change
by sacrificing your impassioned lives of freedom, justice and honour.
More information about the historical background:
gdw-berlin.de
Silent Heros Berlin from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>Thanks to this opportunity I was part of an international group meetings in Amsterdam, Hohenems, Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest. Through this journey I learned and experienced a lot as a historian and also as a filmmaker. This opportunity inspired me to create a short video for each of the locations where I was. Every piece reflects on an exact place, square, river, monument or memorial where the time and history stamped in, but a lot of people do not even know about it. Most of these places had a nice, culturally vivid past, that changed under the Holocaust. The aims of the videos are to create attention on the present and the future of this places.
HOHENEMS
In 1938 Hohenems was the crossing border for Jews from Austria to Switzerland. The refugees had to cross the Alter Rhein river between Hohenems and Diepoldsau. On the German side of the border refugees faced arrest, even as SS men actively helped Jews cross the border illegally. When war broke out in 1939 the German authorities tightened security along its borders. Emigration was to be made impossible. People on both sides helped refugees get across the border, usually for money. Some of them never arrived to the other side of the border.
More information about the historical background:
jm-hohenems.at
Silent Heroes Hohenems from Andrea Ausztrics on Vimeo.
]]>Screenings with lectures:
August 26, 2018 Mexico City, Mexico
May 22, 2014 Jüdische Österreichische Hochschülerinnen, Vienna, Austria
May 18, 2014 Paideia Alumni Conference, Venice, Italy
April 29, 2014 Center for Jewish History & Leo Baeck Institute, New York event
Articles about the film:
Dazoo, index, port.hu, Filmvilág, est.hu, kunsztblog, Offline, gyiegblog, Kulturpart, Roham
