{"id":3306,"date":"2017-09-26T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3306"},"modified":"2017-09-26T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:10:29","slug":"destruction-memory-documentary-film","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/event\/destruction-memory-documentary-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Destruction of Memory: a documentary film"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hudson Museum presents the filming of “Destruction of Memory<\/a>: The War Against Culture, and the Battle to Save It.”<\/p>\n

A description of the film from its website:<\/p>\n

“Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results across the globe. This war against culture is not over –\u00a0it’s been steadily increasing.\u00a0In Syria and Iraq, the \u2018cradle of civilization\u2019, millennia of culture are being destroyed. The push to protect, salvage and rebuild has moved in step with the destruction.\u00a0Legislation and policy have played a role, but heroic individuals have fought back, risking and losing their lives to protect not just other human beings, but our cultural identity – to save the record of who we are.<\/p>\n

Based on the book of the same name by Robert Bevan, “The Destruction of Memory”<\/span>\u00a0tells the whole story – looking not just at the ongoing actions of Daesh (ISIS) and at other contemporary situations, but revealing the decisions of the past that allowed the issue to remain hidden in the shadows for so many years.\u00a0\u00a0Interviewees in the film\u00a0include the Director-General of UNESCO, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as diverse and distinguished international experts, whose voices combine to address this urgent issue.”<\/div>\n
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\"Destruction<\/p>\n

Check out the trailer!<\/p>\n