Memory Extended
Yara Haskiel
Memory Extended marks the beginning of Yara Haskiel’s long research into her family history. The video shows the impossibility of finding names of former family members deported from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz. In a non-linear narrative, these gaps in Haskiel’s own history are linked to the archives of the Jewish communities in Greece, which have been lost, scattered or destroyed in various places.
Yara Haskiel
Yara Haskiel, born 1982 in Germany, is a video artist, researcher and cultural worker. She studied Documentary and Experimental Film and Art and Media at the Arts Universities in Berlin and Hamburg. During her studies, she was part of the Master Class of Prof. Hito Steyerl, Prof. Heinz Emigholz and Gerd Roscher. She holds a Master’s degree in Museology and Critical Theory from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Central themes in her work are collective memory, mourning, the effects of precarity and contemporary concepts of love.
Films by Yara Haskiel
It’s late, a mourning spell 2017 | I don’t write diaries I&II: On Love and Crisis and the Power of Fragility 2016 | What is the PAH? (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) 2014 | Tsakalos Blues 2014 | Memory Extended 2011
