HOLOFICTION - Screening in Frankfurt am Main - May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026
5:15 PM
Orfeos Erben Kino
Hamburger Allee 45, 60486 Frankfurt am Main
As part of the Kritische Einführungswochen / AStA Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, HOLOFICTION will be screened at Orfeos Erben Kino.
Holofiction (2025) is an experimental documentary that explores the visual representation of the Holocaust through a montage of thousands of excerpts from film and television, created between 1938 and today.
Based on an extensive archive of more than 3,000 narrative works, the film critically examines how representations of the Holocaust have been coded, repeated, and reproduced in cinema over the decades. Holofiction reveals recurring visual motifs and narrative patterns that have become iconic — and questions how these images shape collective memory and historical perception.
Inspired by Claude Lanzmann’s skepticism toward fictional representations of historical trauma, and the Shoah in particular, the film reflects on the possibility, limits, and consequences of representing such atrocities in narrative cinema.
Through its essayistic approach, HOLOFICTION invites audiences to think about the ethics and responsibility of cinematic storytelling — and about the ways in which images continue to influence how history is remembered.