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Filmscreening: Redemption Blues

  • LöwenSaal Hohenems Schlossplatz 9 Hohenems, 6845, Vorarlberg Austria (map)

Filmscreening in OmU, with German subtitles and talk with Peter Stastny

Director: Peter Stastny | AUT 2017 | 84 min | Musicians: Anthony Coleman (piano, keyboards), Frank London (trumpet), Marc Ribot (guitar) | German-English version with German subtitles | Starring: Marion Blumenthal Lazan, Walter Feiden, Ruth & Jack Gruener, Joseph Lender, Stella Levi, Sol Rosenkranz, Edith Stastny and Sallah Ta'amari

Redemption Blues is a movie dealing with the difficult legacy of the Holocaust and the insights from some of the last contemporary witnesses. It begins where usual Shoah depictions end and draws a path forward from the perspective of the second generation.

"For a long time I have been searching for some kind of redemption from the massive damage that my family and all of Europe suffered during the Second World War. The task was difficult because I knew that it could not just involve chewing back on events that had already been portrayed in hundreds of films. I had to find a way beyond this narrative by engaging with the emotional landscape that surrounds us today." Peter Stastny

Peter Stastny, filmmaker and psychiatrist in Vienna and New York. His first movies dealt with the careers and pioneering achievements of former psychiatric patients

(Nervenkriege, 1995; In the House, 1998). Since 1999 he has been dealing with the after-effects of the Shoah in experimental documentary form, for example in Gespräch im Gebirg (after Paul Celan, 1999) and Munkac's 60-year Reunion (2005).

An event in the course of the symposium "The future of Testimony”.

Earlier Event: March 26
Reading: „es ist alles noch sehr frisch“
Later Event: March 29
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