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History Projected

History Projected is a series of screenings that unfolded over the course of 2024 organised by the Goethe-Institut of Athens in collaboration with Ethnofest. Greek and German short and feature films introduced their own dialects and dialectics, assembling different approaches to a common historical past. Micro-narratives and off-beat, soft testimonies in the plural form; studies on mythology and role-plays with masks of national identity; jigsaw puzzles with fragments from the archive; loud and invisible gestures and artefacts break the distance from historical sources and prompt surprising readings on different sides of the border. In the end, history is brought to the present and projected into the future, whereas the language of cinema renders history a sensation, an instinct, and a collective experience.

Beyond the obvious H for History we projected the letter H as an organizational structure observing that it works as a frame that could only remind us the filmstrip. Reading that the letter H derives possibly from an early symbol for ‘fence’ made us believe that it voiced very well this dialectic, this passing between two instances, two images, to arrive at a new understanding referencing the famous one + one = three theory.