We have been discussing the research process with those involved or simply interested in the project from our first day in Lviv. What is the story we are trying to tell? Is it about Debora Vogel as an intellectual, a writer, a feminist, a Gertrude Stein of the inter-war Lviv? Is it about that fascinating era of the avant-garde thought and art?
With the time the narrative started to build up – it’s like Debora Vogel herself took us on a journey around the places she lived, walked, wrote about and introduced us to people who survived the war and went on living to tell their stories, or were born long after and found an interest in languages and cultures of their ancestors, the past and present of this area. And not only in Lviv and Burshtyn where Vogel was born, but also in Olesya’s Kiev and my hometown of Moscow.
I start the story by posting this video abstract from our chat with Jason Francisco. We met in the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe to talk about film, photography and Vogel.
