Photo: Michal Kosakowski
Holofiction – German premiere
Kinemathek – Hall
“Looking Back to the Present” – film program 5
With Michal Kosakowski (director), Paolo Marzocchi (composer), Rainer Rother (former artistic director of the German Film Archive) and Marcus Stiglegger (film scholar)
‘Holofiction’
G, A 2025, directed by Michal Kosakowski, 102 min, original version
Windows are smashed, car doors are shut, leather boots gleam and clouds of smoke rise from the chimneys. This happens again and again, but in a slightly different way each time. Events happen in parallel, are repeated or change point of view. Using over 3,000 examples from films, Michal Kosakowski shows how the Holocaust has been enacted, outfitted, designed and staged. His meticulous archival research condenses in a breathless editing process into an anatomy of genocide in recurring motifs, themes and images.
| When | Thu 4.12.25, 18:30–22:30 |
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About the film series
Looking Back to the Present
From 14 November to 19 December 2025, we will transform our historic hall in the former E-Werk into a venue for film events. The program includes current festival films, historical works and experimental short films – accompanied by guests such as the musician Sky Deep and the filmmakers Ulrike Ottinger and Julian Radlmaier. The series connects the present with film history and invites viewers to rediscover the Kinemathek as a forum to exchange ideas.