Films by Sebastian Woithe

Germany 2011, 89 min
by Anja Dreschke

For several years anthropologist and filmmaker Anja Dreschke accompanied the Cologne Tribes, particular societies whose members imitate "foreign" and/or historic cultures notably Huns and Mongolians as a leisure time activity. Thus she realised an ethnographic long-term study providing a "thick description" of historical reenactment as an outstanding cultural phenomenon.Filmed over several years in the course of an ethnographic research TRIBES OF COLOGNE follows an association of about 80 clubs