Holocaust Remembrance Day:
Premiere: Occupied City
January 25 and February 23, 2025
For this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day, in January the Film Museum presents another program dealing with questions of remembrance culture in film. This year, we are pleased to show the Austrian premiere of the documentary essay film Occupied City by British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, a remarkable examination of the National Socialist occupation of his elected home Amsterdam.
How can films tell the story of a place's past? One answer to this aesthetic and eminently political question is: One lets the present, the pre-filmic present of a city, of a street, of a house collide with testimonies of the past. (Michael Loebenstein / Translation: Ted Fendt)
For this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day, in January the Film Museum presents another program dealing with questions of remembrance culture in film. This year, we are pleased to show the Austrian premiere of the documentary essay film Occupied City by British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, a remarkable examination of the National Socialist occupation of his elected home Amsterdam.
How can films tell the story of a place's past? One answer to this aesthetic and eminently political question is: One lets the present, the pre-filmic present of a city, of a street, of a house collide with testimonies of the past. (Michael Loebenstein / Translation: Ted Fendt)
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