"Yolocaust" is a project done by artist Shahak Shapira where he combined selfies taken at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin with footage from Nazi extermination camps. He explains the project with a simple question:
"How do you behave in a place that symbolises the death of six million people?"
Shapira's page where he uploaded the project was visited by more than 2.5 million people and reached all 12 people who's selfies were presented. Almost all of them seemed to understand the message and apologised and took down their selfies from their Facebook and Instagram profiles.
To make this documentary we'll have to get in contact with Shahak Shapira himself and get him onboard, get filming permission from the Memorial in Berlin and rights to use archive photos from e.g The Federal Archive.
The reason why I'd like to make a documentary about this topic is because I'm fascinated by terms like "generation Facebook" or "generation hashtag" and people taking selfies and pictures everywhere and of everything, whether it's of their food or an accident - it all has to be showed and posted to people online. It's a generation where we distance ourself from reality and what's actually happening in front of us. - What makes people do this and why? That's what I want this documentary to show/tell.
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