Screening, The Elida Schogt Trilogy, and Closing Reception
Presented as part of USC’s Genocide Awareness Week, three events organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute will explore artistic responses to genocide, highlighting the ability of creative expression to shine light in the darkness and give voice to silence. The events will reveal the power of the arts to communicate messages of survival and hope in the face of great tragedy. The series is sponsored by the USC Visions and Voices initiative.
We will close the week with a screening and discussion with filmmaker Elida Schogt. Her dynamic trilogy of films—Silent Song, The Walnut Tree and Zyklon Portrait—explores the Holocaust through an abstract lens, offering an innovative artistic response to mass atrocities. Telling the story of her mother’s survival and her truncated family tree, the films are a collage of family photos, home movies and footage that confronts the audience with the complexities of the Holocaust. The films will be screened, followed by a discussion with Schogt and Michael Renov, documentary theorist and associate dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
About the Artist:
Elida Schogt is a filmmaker and media artist who often uses science and history to explore questions of how the personal intersects with collective processes. Best known for her award-winning experimental documentaries on Holocaust memory, Schogt has screened her films around the world. She received an MA in media studies from the New School for Social Research and is a PhD candidate in visual arts at York University. She lives in Toronto, where she is a sessional faculty member in the integrated media department at OCAD University.
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