October 18, 2023 | 7:15pm | Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave, Portland, OR
ONE SHOW ONLY! Director in attendance for post-film Q&A!
Special screening in community partnership with the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
Filmmaker Michael Turner documents his first visit to a Holocaust memorial created by his grandmother Lici, a Hungarian Jew whose parents and sister were killed in Auschwitz. The resulting personal documentary is a powerful and poetic story of two relatives meeting through time and space to carry their family memory forward.
Monument integrates an intimate family story with a battle over memory happening through monuments and memorials, and the way history is taught and shared in public spaces. Turner and his camera travel from Budapest into the Hungarian countryside where his grandmother grew up, and where the Jewish population lives in a state between hiding and extinction. In basement archives and makeshift synagogues, he introduces us to Hungarians of different faiths and backgrounds working to keep this cultural memory alive, and gain the context to consider our own country’s responsibility for our stories.
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Cast and Crew
Director: Michael Turner
Producers: Alyssa Burgé, Alfred Lee, Michael Turner
Original Score: Bill Roberts
Featured Subjects: András Csillag, Mária Heller, Krisztína Kelbert, Sándor Márkus