Holocaust 101

Unified Field for Jewish Federation of San Diego · 2026

A film you sit inside.

MY ROLE

Visual language, storyboard, illustration, collage, information design, archival image treatment and animation.

Watch the full film in English or Spanish

Storyboard page, scene 1, Opening Acknowledgment. A quiet cityscape fades in, followed by the film title.
Storyboard page, scene 2, Historical Overview. A truck carrying people crosses the city, then layers of documents fill the screen.
Storyboard page, scene 3, Other Targeted Groups. Families stand behind strands of barbed wire.
Storyboard page, scene 4, Human Impact. A map of Europe shows Nazi-controlled territory growing from 1933 to 1945.
Storyboard page, scene 5, Why it Matters. Portraits of victims drift by as a boy from the present day looks at them.
Each scene was planned in the storyboard as narrative, information graphics or something more abstract. Storyboard imagery includes AI-generated visuals, prompted, selected, art-directed, and refined by me.

The story moves from the rise of the Nazi state to individual faces, on one image that wraps around three LED walls.

The Final Solution, first frame. A distant crowd in silhouette. Second frame. The crowd comes closer and individual faces appear. Third frame. Most figures have disappeared, leaving a few people.
From a distant crowd to individual faces. The statistic is never shown as text. Figures disappear one by one instead.
Visitors seated in the mobile museum watch the film wrap around three LED walls.
Different walls carry different parts of the action, so the audience turns to follow it. 12,160 × 2,160 px canvas · Three LED walls · 2 min 42 sec The voice-over is AI-synthesized and the music is licensed stock, both assembled and directed by me.
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