Project: Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe

Acronym	VICTORE
Project Topic	How have audio-visual representations of public spaces – and particularly the documentation of war damage and of reconstruction efforts –, shaped the politics, policies and polities of post-WW II Europe? Framing post- war culture as a culture of trauma and transition and treating public space as a privileged site for the discursive construction of regional, national and supra-national communities, VICTOR-E studies the political iconography of public spaces in non-fiction film from the cessation of hostilities (1944-45) until the Thaw (1956) in a transnational perspective. This perspective encompasses different national experiences of war destruction and post-war reconstruction across Europe.VICTOR-E unites scholars of non-fiction film from four European countries with film archives and combines archival research with oral histories to provide context for previously digitized as well as newly discovered and digitized content. Apart from scholarly publications and conferences, the main deliverable is a sustainable, multilingual (F, I, D, CZ, English) virtual exhibition connected with European Film Gateway, which presents the research results to scholars and the general public and furthers our understanding of how audio-visual media shape notions of public space as a site of commemoration and political and social action.
Network	HERA-JRP-PS
Call	HERA Joint Research Programme “Public Spaces: Culture and Intergration in Europe”

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main	Coordinator	Germany
2	Università degli Studi di Udine	Partner	Italy
3	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic	Partner	Czech Republic
4	Université Paris 1 – Sorbonne Panthéon	Partner	France