The interactive multimedia installation "The Danube Exodus" by the Hungarian filmmaker and artist Péter Forgács, and the Labyrinth Project focuses on escaping the horrors of World War II. Historical film clips, documentary material, and interviews are interwoven into three journeys that told the stories of despair, threats, and hope.
This installation is based on Péter Forgács’s 1998 documentary film The Danube Exodus and its research materials, produced by Lumen Film. The Labyrinth Project is an art collective and research initiative on database narrative at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, California.
The supplementary timeline to the installation documented two journeys in their chronological orders. The first narrative tells of Eastern European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, and the second story follows Bessarabian German farmers as they abandoned their adopted homeland to return to the "safety" of the Third Reich. Both groups were transported along the Danube River by Captain Nándor Andrásovits, who documented these voyages; he and the river are the subjects of the third story.
