{"id":315,"date":"2018-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:00:00","slug":"palmyra-europaeischer-mythos-indiekino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/palmyra-europaeischer-mythos-indiekino","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra \u2014 A European Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Review by Hannes Stein | INDIEKINO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hans Puttnies, professor of media design from Darmstadt, spent two weeks in 2008 in the still-intact city of Palmyra. His newly edited essay film deals with European myth-making around the ancient city and how it &#8222;erased the living present of the Arab town of Tadmor.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The film traces the perceptual history of Palmyra from a monk&#8217;s travel narrative of 1691, through Gerard Hofstede van Essen&#8217;s influential drawing, to James Dawkins&#8216; 1751 expedition. Giovanni Borra&#8217;s precise ruin drawings became design templates for 19th-century European country houses.<\/p>\n<p>In the 20th century, German and later French archaeologists monopolized the research. In 1930, the French relocated the living population to a newly built town in order to enable better excavations.<\/p>\n<p>Puttnies&#8216; work is characterized as &#8222;academic and occasionally pretentious&#8220; but also as &#8222;a compelling study of aesthetic, enlightened European colonialism.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>Germany 2016 | Director: Hans Puttnies | 90 minutes | Distributor: Kairos Filmverleih | FSK: 16 | Release date: 06.09.2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiekino.de\/film\/de\/palmyra_2017\">\u2192 to the article (INDIEKINO)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compelling study of aesthetic, enlightened European colonialism \u2014 the production of the myth erased the living present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","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\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmyrafilm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}