Simone Gigliotti, "Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced" (Indiana UP, 2023)
The global refugee, the ship passenger, the displaced person. How did their homeseeking routes and visual motifs intersect and diverge in the early Holocaust film archive? Simone\xa0Gigliotti's\xa0Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced\xa0tracks the footsteps and routes of predominantly Jewish refugees and postwar displaced persons in what I call a \u201crestless archive\u201d of photographic, cinematographic and visual material that was created and re-used between 1933 and 1949. The historical and spatial analysis concentrates on tracing the emergence and remediation (migration) of images of displacement and transit and the forgotten-ness of others. The visual inventory is anchored in non-fiction historical material, including newsreels, institutional projections, found footage, home movies, short films, "fundraisers" and documentaries. In addition to Manifold's narrative platform, creative technologies, such as StoryMaps, have enabled the digital curation, mapping and \u201crepatriation\u201d of this visual and spatial archive of obstruction which has, to date, eluded analysis in its local and global entanglements.\nYou can find the open access book\xa0here.\xa0You can also find all of the source material mentioned in the interview if you keep scrolling down to the "Resources" section.\nLinks Mentioned in the Episode\n\n\nAn Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, Hamid Naficy (Princeton University Press, 2001)\n\nWalter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (PDF)\n\n\nHallel Yadin\xa0is an archivist and special projects manager at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies