Movieposter Mirror Image by Danielle Schwartz
With Danielle Schwartz (filmmaker)and Yehudit Yinhar (moderation / artist and part of the Nicht Einfach-team)
At this event, we will present the short documentary film Mirror Image by Danielle Schwartz and afterwards invite you to a conversation with the filmmaker.
This award-winning short documentary follows a conversation between a granddaughter and her Jewish-Israeli grandparents. Based on an old mirror, an examination of family memories and stories of the 1948 war unfold. Mirror Image is an intimate reflection on memory and identity and poses the question of how history is written, passed on and negotiated.
The film is 11 minutes long, in Hebrew with English and German subtitles. The subsequent discussion will be in English. A German translation will be provided.
Mirror Image: Short documentary film, 11 min, Israel 2013, by Danielle Schwartz
More information about the film: https://linktr.ee/mirror.image
Danielle Schwartz (she/her) is an Israeli filmmaker, researcher, and activist living in Germany. She studied literature (Tel Aviv University and the University of Chicago) and cultural studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and wrote about the images of Palestinian ruins in Israeli film and culture. Her film, Mirror Image, won the Van Leer Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the DOC NYC Film Festival. It has been screened internationally.
Yehudit Yinhar (she/her) is an artist and activist. She studied visual arts at the weißensee school of art and design berlin as well as at the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. In her work, she combines artistic research, archival work, and political interventions. As part of the Nicht Einfach (Not Easy) specialists team, Yehudit Yinhar has co-conceptualised the content of the project.
This event is spart of the pluralistic Discourse Programme Not Easy: It invites dialogue on plural perspectives within contemporary German memory discourse and social coexistence. Starting from the life and work of the artist Irma Stern (1894–1966), it explores the complex entanglements of antisemitism, colonialism and racism. The programme encourages participants to expand their perspective on Stern’s ambivalent experiences between persecution and exile as a Jewish German woman, as well as her privileges as a white South African.
Developed by Ahmad Dakhnous, Tahir Della, Anna Yeboah and Yehudit Yinhar, accompanied by Pegah Byroum-Wand and Daniela Bystron.
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