Film Screening: Monument

Filmmaker Michael Turner (The Way We Talk) brings us on a deeply personal journey as he documents his first visit to a Holocaust memorial created by his grandmother Lici, a Hungarian Jew whose parents and sister were killed in Auschwitz.

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Monument seamlessly weaves together an intimate family story with ongoing discussions examining memory preservation through monuments and memorials, as well as the dissemination of history in public spaces. As Michael and his camera travel from Budapest into the Hungarian countryside, retracing his grandmother's roots and the Jewish community's tenuous existence, they reveal a Jewish population living in a delicate balance between hiding and survival.

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The resulting personal documentary is a powerful and poetic story of two relatives meeting through time and space to carry their family memory forward.

Michael Turner is an independent filmmaker and the creator of the award-winning documentary The Way We Talk, which has screened around the world in many languages and contributed to a paradigm shift in how stuttering is perceived. He earned a BA in Film from CSU Long Beach and has worked with The Immigrant Story, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, and many other impactful organizations.

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