The Holocaust on Film

Presented by the Centre for Jewish Culture, Society, and Politics, St Aidan’s College, and the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, in partnership with the Tyneside Cinema.

To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024, this film series explores landmark films in Holocaust representation, including a double billing of Night and Fog (1955) and Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021), Son of Saul (2015), and the premiere of Jonathan Glazer’s critically acclaimed new film The Zone of Interest (2024), based on Martin Amis’ novel. All of the films will be introduced by scholars from Durham, Northumbria, and Sheffield Universities.

Starting with Night and Fog (1955), made ten years after the liberation of the concentration camps, and culminating with The Zone of Interest, these films represent major watersheds in depictions of the Holocaust. From taboos around representing the gas chambers to the urgency of preserving witness voices, these films ask: how do we represent an event as traumatic as the Holocaust?

For further information about the academic aspects of the series please email zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk

The organisers are pleased to announce that limited free tickets are available to Durham University staff and students. Details of the three screenings are below with registration links at the bottom of the page.

The films showing are:

Night and Fog + Three Minutes: A Lengthening Thursday January 11th, 18.00

Introduced by Dr. Zoë Roth (Durham). A special double bill screening of two essential, immensely powerful documentaries on The Holocaust: Alan Resnais' 1955 short Night and Fog, centred around the horrifying experiences of concentration camp victims, and Bianca Stiger's Three Minutes: A Lengthening - an in-depth examination of 1938 footage from a Jewish town in Poland before the harrowing events of The Holocaust. Further information Night and Fog + Three Minutes: A Lengthening - Tyneside Cinema

Son of Saul Sunday January 21st, 13.30

Introduced by Dr. Dominic Williams (Northumbria). László Nemes's visceral, experiential recollection of The Holocaust is observed from the profoundly affecting perspective of Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Jewish-Hungarian prisoner of Auschwitz who sets out to bury a young victim of the gas chambers. Further information Son of Saul (35mm) - Tyneside Cinema

The Zone of Interest Sunday January 28th, 15.00

Followed by a roundtable discussion with Prof. Sue Vice (Sheffield), Dr. Dominic Williams, and Dr. Zoë Roth. Visionary director Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama is a chilling masterpiece which bears witness to the atrocities of evil from its terrifying outskirts, as a Nazi commandant raises his family in luxury on the borders of Auschwitz. Further information The Zone of Interest - Tyneside Cinema

Booking

Registration for Night and Fog + Three Minutes: A Lengthening is now closed.

Register for Son of Saul (35mm) is now closed.

The Zone of Interest is now fully booked.

Please note that there are limited free places for each screening and these will be allocated as registrations are received. Seats booked via this form are for staff and students of Durham University only.

If you can no longer attend or have difficulties with this form please contact 
artsandhumanities.researchteam@durham.ac.uk