Founded in 2010, SFC – Shoah Film Collection
had in the beginning just a slow, but in 2012 a rapid and successful development.

By introducing the event structure for presenting “SFC – Shoah Film Collection”,i.e. “A Virtual Memorial- Commemorative Interventions”, in 2012 the first three events took place in RIGA, Phnom Penh and Warsaw, resulting an extention of the thematic spectrum by including a new collection of documentaries about the Cambodian genocide 1975-1979, and consequently the creation of CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections including SFC _ Shoah Film Collection as its basis.

At the end of 2012, CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections are now representing another and the expanded international world-wide unique initiative by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne addressed to young generations of artists and film makers to deal with the topic of collective trauma caused by totalitarism by using new technologies and contemporary approaches in art in order to keep vivid the memory via art.

The first collection, SFC – Shoah Film Collection
is dedicated to the victims of Holocaust, but also other genocides
consisting of experimental films, videoart and documentaries
http://ctf.engad.org/?page_id=8

The second collection “Cambodia” -consisting of documentaries
is dealing with the Cambodian genocide 1975-1979
http://ctf.engad.org/?page_id=19

Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
are proud to be invited for presenting

CologneOFF 2012 Poland
SFC – Shoah Film Collection
@ Warsaw Jewish Film Festival
25-30 October 2012

Warsaw Jewish Film Festival selected 17 films for this feature, and additional 11 films as optional candidates for a screening, so that more than the half Shoah Film Collection can be presented.

http://www.wjff.pl

PDF festival catalogue for download

more details

Freedom of Memory
A Virtual Memorial Phom Penh 2012
videoart in a global context
dedicated to the victims of the genocide in Cambodia 1975-1979
http://phnompenh2012.a-virtual-memorial.org

12-15 July 2012
@ META House Phnom Penh
German -Cambodian Cultural Centre

artvideoKOELN in collaboration with
Cologne International Videoart Festival
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SFC – SHoah Film Collection
1#minute COLOGNE – Cologne One Minute Film Festival
animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
exDox – Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival

More details and lists of programs

A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012
1-30 June 2012 @ Culture an Arts Project NOASS Riga/Latvia
was realized in the context of the European Culture program
“The A – Team – artists for change”

A Team concept
http://ateamartistsforchange.wordpress.com/about-2/

A Team Latvia & A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012
http://ateamartistsforchange.wordpress.com/category/latvian-category/

The Presentation of Shoah Film Collection in Riga is standing now under the Patronage of the European Parliament.

supported by

A Virtual Memorial Foundation
is happy to announce to realisation of

A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012
Commemorative Interventions
featuring SFC – Shoah Film Collecion
@ Culture & Arts Projects Noass Riga
1-8 June 2012

in partnership between Riga Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum, the association “SHAMIR” – Jewish Community of Latvia, Culture & Arts Projects NOASS Riga and artvideoKOELN – the curatorial initiative “art & moving images” Cologne/Germany

As a nomadic memorial project created by Agricola de Cologne, A Virtual Memorial – Commemorative Interventions is representing the new contextual framework for presentating SFC – Shoah Film Collection as a screening and exhibition event accompanied by exhibitions, lectures, panel discussions, round tables, artists talks and workshops.

The provisional event schedule can be downloaded as PDF
English
Deutsch

More info about
A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 – Commemorative Interventions
& SFC – Shoah Film Collection —> http://dts.engad.org

On occasion of the return of the liberation of Auschwitz, 27 January 2012 - SFC – Shoah Film Collection is re-releasing a call for submissions.

Artists in the field of “moving images ” are invited to submit up to three works of experimental film & videoart dealing with the topic of “Shoah” and related fields.

The extended collection of SFC – Shoah Film Collection will be screened and exhibited in the framework of CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context

The details and entry form can be found on–>
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1549

or can be downloaded as PDF

Call for entres: English

Convocatoria: español

Aufruf an Künstler zur Teilnahme

A Virtual Memorial Foundation
is happy to launch SFC – Shoah Film Collection in the framework of
CologneOFF 2011 – videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project – 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2012
and the physical screenings at

Art Museum of Arad/Romania (March 2011)
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=953

Cultural Observatory Szczcecin 20116 – Szczecin/Poland (May 2011)
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1143

NCCA-National Center of Contemporary Art St.Petersburg (May 2011)
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1156

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies – Purdue University Ft. Wayne/USA (November 2011) to come, yet

On 25 January 2010, A Virtual Memorial Foundation joint NewMediaFest’2010 and launched a new media art context on occasion of 27 January 2010 – International Holocaust Day – 65th return of the Liberation of Auschwitz, entitled. Draft Title: Shoah v.1.0 –> http://dts.engad.org/shoah-index.html

The main part represents “SFC – Shoah Film Collection” –> http://dts.engad.org/sfc-index.html,

a new unique initiative by A Virtual Memorial Foundation & VideoChannel in the framework of NewMediaFest’2010 to encourage young generations of artists and filmmakers to refelect the context of Shoah and contribute, this way, against the forgetting. This new collection starts with 34 films and videos, most of them created especially for SFC, which already indicates, that artists take the challenge reflecting Holocaust/Shoah in an artistic way to visualize the “impossible”. That it is possible in contemporary artistic expressions shows the works feature in SFC impressingly.

SFC will be the Feature of the Month “February 2010″ on NewMediaFest’2010, and VAD – Video Art Database will feature the included works during February for one day.

More details soon.