Films by Jost Hering

Germany, Greece 2017, 80 min
by Nicos Ligouris

A cinematic essay that combines documentary, fiction and philosophical contemplation on the subject of the paradoxical interplay between the cultures of the European North and South, with the camera performing continual back-and-forth movements between Germany and Greece. Ethnography and historiography, culture and everyday life, political and personal experience all come together forming new references, in the course of what constitutes a journey through the labyrinth of recent European history

2017, 72 min
by Axel Koenzen, Ali Gözkaya

Patara tells the story of the reconstruction of the world’s first federal parliament, built 50 BC in Anatolia, Turkey. At the beginning of this millenium the Turkish government decided to reconstruct the ancient assembly hall of Patara to set up a stage for a meeting between U.S. president Barack Obama and the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Apparently Obama never came. Therefore the film looks at both sides of the coin of what Obama once called a ‘model partnership’, a strategical