{"id":307,"date":"2018-09-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-07T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T12:00:00","slug":"palmyra-rezension-film-rezensionen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/palmyra-rezension-film-rezensionen","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra \u2014 A Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review by Oliver Armknecht | Film-Rezensionen.de | September 7, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hans Puttnies‘ documentary „Palmyra“ deals with the destroyed ancient city in Syria. The film combines footage from 2008 \u2014 long before the destruction by ISIS \u2014 with essayistic voice-over reflections.<\/p>\n

The film begins like a classical tourist film, showing the temples and desert landscapes of the ancient ruins. However, Puttnies pursues a deeper goal: he questions our understanding of history and criticizes how Palmyra was reduced to a pure historical construct, while the people who lived there were forgotten in the history books.<\/p>\n

Puttnies explores the city’s history \u2014 such as that of the 3rd-century ruler Zenobia \u2014 yet continually questions how one-sided historiography is. Through its electronic music score and voice-over, the film feels like a dream or a trance.<\/p>\n

The most haunting moment emerges from a personal interview: a teenager describes how he sold souvenirs to tourists \u2014 a human story that was lost after the ISIS invasion and would have faded into oblivion without the film.<\/p>\n

„Palmyra“ combines documentation with essayistic reflection and transforms the tragedy of a destroyed historical site into a personal, human memory.<\/p>\n

\u2192 to the article (Film-Rezensionen.de)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film transforms from a travel documentary into a critical examination of which concept of history we actually hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zeitung","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}