UNAMERICA Relocating memories

UNAMERICA Relocating memories
2018
HD-Video, 16:9, 17:40 min.
Dolby Surround Sound 5.1

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UNAMERICA Relocating memories deals with the commemoration of the internment of Japanese-Americans at the former War Relocation Center in Manzanar, USA during World War II. Once a year survivors, their relatives, as well as sympathizing groups come together to commemorate the forced displacement and detention of more than 10,000 people authorized by president Roosevelt through the Executive Order 9066. In 1985 Manzanar was declared a national memorial site. Since 9/11 the Japanese-American community intensively expresses its solidarity also with Muslim communities in the USA and invites them to participate in the events at Manzanar. The video focusses on different historical, political and visual narratives with the purpose to understand how and in which way the historical events are represented and reconstructed today. The historical photos used in the video are taken by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange.