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Eight years after I first stood at the side of the lake at Várpalota, this blog is being archived.

This has been an amazing journey which has taken me into the homes of witnesses and survivors in the UK, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. I started off thinking about memory, landscape and atrocity and years later the work has become about the here and now and about how history has failed the Roma.

There have been multiple films…some small films which I’ve posted here on this blog, and others that have been exhibited publicly, such as the video installation This is History (after all) and the Random Acts film made for Channel 4 Its Going to Rain. I’ve written thousands of words and spoken at conferences and given presentations about this work in the UK, Netherlands and the USA.

All this work finally leads to The Deathless Woman – a feature film which had it’s world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2019.

In memory of the thousands of Roma who were murdered during WWII and the many more who continue to be subjected to violent and murderous prejudice in Europe today.

I will be at Visible Evidence XXIII in Montana between 11th-14th August 2016 screening This is History (after all) and giving a presentation (Bringing a Ghost into Being) about my current research which focuses on the legacy of a Roma woman who was buried in a mass grave at Bielcza in 1942.

In May I gave a presentation at the Ecstatic Truths: defining the essence of animated documentary symposium at the Royal College of Art. Using my experiences while in Poland filming This is History (after all) as a case study, I talked about my research into traumatic histories and phenomenology as method…. focusing on the trees at Zabno.

Sites of Collective Memory will be on show at the Cube Gallery, Phoenix, Leicester UK from 5th September to 3rd October 2014. Free entry. Roz’s film, This is History (after all) will be showing on a continuous loop.

On 24th September at 6.15pm Roz will be in conversation with exhibition curator and co-director of Animate Projects Abigail Addison and artists Delaine and Damian Le Bas. We’ll be presenting our work and discussing the rewards and challenges of representing culture from both an insider and outsider perspective. Free. Join us!

Wednesday 16th July 2014
@ Agency gallery
66 Evelyn Street, London SE8 5DD
6.30 – 8pm
Free.
Please join us for this talk where I will be discussing my new film THIS IS HISTORY (after all) with Michaela Crimmin, co-director of Culture+Conflict.
The event coincides with the Sites of Collective Memory exhibition at nearby CGP gallery and all five artists from the show will be participating in the discussion.
The talk will be followed by summer drinks and music in the gallery’s garden until 10pm.

My new film, THIS IS HISTORY (after all), made in response to three grave sites in Poland is showing in the Sites of Collective Memory exhibition at CGP gallery, London from 8th July to 10th August.
Do come!
Here’s an invitation

On 25th June I will be screening a selection of filmed interviews with survivors and witnesses of Roma massacres in Southern Poland that I have collected during my research. The event is part of Hackney’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month. There will be a panel discussion and Roma speakers from Hackney, Newham and Harringay (who will also be providing Roma food and music).
Do come! Its free, but please book.