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Screening of: PETER EISENMAN: BUILDING GERMANY'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL curated by Art Doc Festival Monday March 10| 3.15 p.m. Casa dell'Architettura Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47 | Rome FREE ENTRANCE
Direction: Michael Blackwood Photography: Claudia Rauch e Christoph Lerch Editing: Joelle Schon Production: Michael Blackwood Productions, Inc.
This documentation chronicles Peter Eisenman's creation of a major public sculpture in the center of Berlin, a soccer-field sized space filled with 2711 concrete stele. The stele are of varying heights, tipping to the left and right on a shifting, undulating ground, reminiscent of a wheat field tossed by strong winds. Access to the field is through a grid of narrow walkways barely 3 feet wide, just enough for one person to pass through. The mission of the memorial is to honor the victims and keep alive the memory of the crimes of the Hitler years for future generations. It was important to place the memorial in a prominent place in the center of the German capital, where the Nazis had planned the genocide. USA, 2007, 57', English, Italian subtitles
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