Historical Frames: Videographic Approaches to Holocaust Films

This presentation reflects on questions of representability, narrative, and documentary ethics with regards to the history of the Holocaust film. Specifically, it proposes a number of videographic methods with which we might approach historical atrocities in and through audiovisual images and archives.

Evelyn Kreutzer is a media scholar, video essayist, and curator, based in Lugano, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. She co-leads the research group “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies,” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, 2024-2027, with Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto), in which she primarily focuses on developing a method of “videographic memory studies.” She serves as Associate Editor for [in]transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Images Studies and as co-editor of the Videography series in Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. Her written and videographic work has been published in journals like The Cine-Files, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, NECSUS, Research in Film & History, and [in]Transition. Her audiovisual book Televising Taste is forthcoming with Lever Press.

Sponsored by the Holocaust Remembrance Film Fund and the Film and Media Culture Department.