Using Film to Examine Heritage, Identity and Global Citizenship: supporting the work of the Bautzen Memorial to Engage New Audiences

该提案旨在实现Cooke的AHRC项目AH/K005359/1“筛选欧洲遗产”的意想不到的影响。该项目将与德国包岑纪念馆（前东德秘密警察的主要监狱）以及社区电影制作项目“柏林青年电影”合作，该项目与英国电影学院电影学院合作，共同制作一部电影和相关的在线教育材料，将成为包岑永久展览的一部分，也将提交给柏林和利兹的青年电影节（第一次）。与一群来自英国和前东德和西德的年轻人合作，这部电影将利用原始研究的结果，研究流行文化如何反映当代德国民主共和国不断变化的遗产，以及纪念馆的档案材料。该项目将为接受电影制作培训的年轻人提供一种创造性的方式，让他们反思从民主德国独裁统治中吸取的教训，以理解当代对民主、全球公民身份的理解，以及“遗产”概念与我们身份认同感之间的竞争方式。该项目是探索性的，旨在为希望在一系列环境中开展类似教育电影制作项目的团体提供一个模型。许多组织都希望看到这个试点项目的成果，其中包括国际服务组织，一个与世界各地的青年团体合作的国际发展慈善机构。我们在这个项目中的主要合作伙伴是包岑纪念馆。建立纪念馆的目的是，作为对当代社会的历史警告，保持对东德政权罪行的记忆。其战略的核心是支持年轻人的政治教育，无论是在前东德和西德各州，还是在欧洲范围内。纪念馆目前的重点是扩大游客人数，主要是东德人。该项目的目的是支持纪念馆的这一努力，将东德和西德的参与者聚集在一起。此外，通过吸纳英国参与者，它还将帮助纪念馆开发以国际为重点的英语教学材料，以提高其为国际游客提供的服务。项目团队和包岑纪念馆还将与“Landesverband Kinder- und Jugendfilm Berlin”（LKJB）合作，LKJB是一个教育电影制作慈善机构，旨在将年轻人从被动的视听媒体消费者转变为积极和批判性的实践者。该慈善机构为年轻人提供基本电影制作技术的专业介绍，并支持他们以小组形式开发和实现自己的项目。LKJB的战略目标之一是通过他们的视听实践，促使年轻人对社会和历史提出问题。该慈善机构对建立这样一种与德意志民主共和国过去的接触有着浓厚的兴趣，这段历史是年轻人没有亲眼目睹的，但对理解当代德国及其在欧洲的角色至关重要。LKJB通常在柏林及其周边地区工作，如果能够通过与包岑纪念馆的合作扩大其影响力，将大大受益。此外，该项目将允许LKJB与英国电影学院的电影学院建立联系，使双方的电影培训计划能够分享最佳实践。

This proposal sets out to realize unanticipated impacts of Cooke's AHRC project AH/K005359/1 'Screening European Heritage'. The project will work with the Bautzen Memorial in Germany - formerly the main prison of the East German Secret Police - and the community filmmaking project 'Landesverband Kinder- und Jugendfilm Berlin', in collaboration with the British Film Institute Film Academy, to co-produce a film and accompanying online educational materials that will become part of the permanent exhibition at Bautzen and will also be submitted to young people's film festivals (in the first instance) in Berlin and Leeds. Working with a group of young people from the UK and both the former East and West German states, the film will draw on the findings of the original research on the ways in which popular culture reflects the changing legacy of the GDR in contemporary Germany, along with archival material from the Memorial. The project will provide young people, who will receive training to make the film, with a means to reflect creatively upon the lessons to be learnt from the GDR dictatorship for contemporary understandings of democracy, global citizenship and the competing ways that notions of 'heritage' relate to our sense of identity. The project is exploratory in nature and is envisaged as providing a model for groups wishing to undertake similar educational film-making projects in a range of settings. We have interest from a number of organisations wishing to see the results of this pilot, including International Service, the international development charity which works with youth groups around the world.Our main partner in this project is the Bautzen Memorial. It is the aim of the Memorial to keep alive the memory of the crimes of the East German regime as a historical warning for contemporary society. Central to its strategy is to support the political education of young people, both across the former East and West German states and also within a European context. The Memorial is currently focussed on expanding its visitor demographic, which is predominantly East German. It is the aim of this project to support the Memorial in this endeavour, bringing together as participants East and West Germans. Moreover, through the inclusion of UK participants it will also help the Memorial to develop internationally-focussed, English language pedagogical material in order to enhance its offering for international visitors. The project team and Bautzen Memorial will also work with 'Landesverband Kinder- und Jugendfilm Berlin' (LKJB), an educational filmmaking charity that aims to turn young people from passive consumers of audio-visual media into active and critical practitioners. The charity offers young people a professional introduction to basic filmmaking techniques and supports them in developing and realising their own projects in small groups. One of LKJB's strategic aims is to prompt young people to ask questions about society and history by means of their audio-visual practice. The charity has a strong interest in creating such an engagement with the GDR past, a period of history which young people did not witness but which is crucial to understanding contemporary Germany and its role in Europe. Normally working within Berlin and its surrounding areas, the LKJB would benefit greatly from being able to extend its reach through cooperation with the Bautzen Memorial. The project will, moreover, allow LKJB to develop links with the British Film Institute's Film Academy, allowing both film-training initiatives to share best practice.