Mark your calendars and get your tickets now before they sell out! Bridge Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman will be moderating a panel at the Gene Siskel Film Center next Thursday the 30th at 7pm with artist, filmmaker and Bridge artistic collective member Mat Rappaport at the Chicago premiere of his new film TOURISTIC INTENTS (info below). Joining them is Jonathan Mekinda, Architecture and Design Historian at the University of Chicago, and Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and chair of the Minor in Moving Image Arts at the University of Illinois.

Mat's feature film will be premiering in our great city on November 27 & 30 this month! The film is centered on the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, a 4-mile-long building made to house 20,000 vacationing working-class Germans, and used as a promise of leisure time for the masses and to strengthen sympathies for the Nazi party. After decades of abandonment, the massive edifice is now being redeveloped into apartments, condominiums, hotels, and a youth hostel.

TOURISTIC INTENTS grapples with notions of place and identity in an era when the role of national monuments has become a defining issue of cultural memory. We are fortunate to be partnering with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Illinois Holocaust
Museum & Education Center, and Goethe-Institut.