Audiovisual story Deportraitations
During the project Stations of Grief the students created audiovisual story Deportraitations. The film is only nine minutes long, but contains the remembrances of the three generations. This is a story about the memory the young people wanted to share, combining the lines from their grandparents’ letters and diaries, photographs from their familial albums and the voices of their own - the deportees’ grandchildren. It is a story about the world that was lost, the people who vanished or whose life was unrecognizably changed and the hope that was kept alive. It is a letter, put together a piece by piece, written in three languages and whispered out.
Collected material
One of the main intentions of Stations of Grief was to encourage young people to learn their families‘ history, to collect, digitize and preserve documents and photographs that witness the experiences of close people, to perpetuate authentic stories. Here you will find the fragments of collected material. In total, over 200 familial photographs, 60 letters, documents and other artefacts were digitized and photographed; almost 5 hours of audiovisual interviews were made during the project.
A film about 'The Stations of Grief'.
Interview with Kārlis Bērziņš.
Monta Neinberga's grandparents' album.
Thoughts of the participants
‘History can not be classified as good or bad. It’s just the way it was. My both grandparents were sent to Siberia, to Magadan, when they were very young. That’s the place, where they met, where my history, as human being, begins. I feel this story as a journey towards humanity…’ – sais Monta Neinberga, a student of Communication from Latvia. During the project we recorded couple of interviews with the participants. Here you will find not only reflections about the history of deportations, but also very authentic reminiscences of the family stories. We want to share our thoughts, insights and findings.
Interview with Monta Neinberga.
Texts
How does the three Baltic States see their history? Is a historical context an important part of young people‘s identity? What moves young people while thinking of the history of deportations and imprisonments? Stations of Grief intended to analyze the history of deportations from various angles - meetings with the survivors, screenings of the documentary films, discussions with the filmmakers, excursions to the museums and exhibitions inspired a lot of thoughts. Here we collected articles and other texts written by the participants for various blogs or specially for the Stations of Grief.
