Documentary Unit: Final Idea
As a group we really struggled to make a final decision. Many of our ideas were really good and definitely worth considering. In the end we decided on the 'Yolocaust' idea, but only if we could get the artist behind these edited images on board for an interview.
"Yolocaust" is a project done by artist Shahak Shapira where he combined selfies taken at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin with footage from Nazi extermination camps. He explains the project with a simple question:
"How do you behave in a place that symbolises the death of six million people?"
Shapira's page where he uploaded the project was viewed by over 2.5 million people and reached all 12 people who posted these 'disrespectful' selfies. Almost all of them seemed to understand the message and apologised for their offensive behaviour and took down their selfies from their Facebook and Instagram pages.
We are pleased to say that we successfully managed to get hold of Shahak Shapira himself and got him onboard, with filming permission at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
The reason we chose this documentary idea is because its a topic we are all fascinated by. I myself studied history for Levels and covered it in depth for A/s Levlels. Its interesting to see how our "hashtag generation" feels about the tragic events of and people taking selfies and pictures everywhere and of everything, whether it's of their food or an accident - it all has to be showed and posted to people online. It's a generation where we distance ourself from reality and what's actually happening in front of us. - What makes people do this and why? That's what we want this documentary to show/tell.
"Yolocaust" is a project done by artist Shahak Shapira where he combined selfies taken at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin with footage from Nazi extermination camps. He explains the project with a simple question:
"How do you behave in a place that symbolises the death of six million people?"
We are pleased to say that we successfully managed to get hold of Shahak Shapira himself and got him onboard, with filming permission at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
The reason we chose this documentary idea is because its a topic we are all fascinated by. I myself studied history for Levels and covered it in depth for A/s Levlels. Its interesting to see how our "hashtag generation" feels about the tragic events of and people taking selfies and pictures everywhere and of everything, whether it's of their food or an accident - it all has to be showed and posted to people online. It's a generation where we distance ourself from reality and what's actually happening in front of us. - What makes people do this and why? That's what we want this documentary to show/tell.
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