“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.