Film Screening: Touristic Intents—Can a Building be Guilty?
- Sponsor
- Germanic Languages and Literatures; co-sponsored by Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, the Humanities Research Institute, the European Union Center, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
- Cost
- Free and open to the public.
- Contact
- Anke Pinkert
- pinkert@illinois.edu
- Views
- 115
- Originating Calendar
- Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Films
Touristic Intents is a feature documentary film that explores the connection between mass tourism and political ideology. The film is centered on a case study: the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, on Germany’s Baltic Sea, which was built on a mammoth scale beginning in 1936 to house 20,000 vacationing working-class Germans. This 4-mile-long building was used in propaganda to forward a promise of leisure time for the masses and strengthen sympathies between the workers and the Nazi party. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past?
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Mat Rappaport, a filmmaker, scholar, and the Donald W. Klein Professor of the Practice in Film and Media Studies at Tufts University.