Trailer for a split-screen 58 min documentary commissioned by CoHERE. Filmmaker Ian McDonald explores the politics of heritage practices and the construction of identity in Europe today. Composed of six parts, each responding to the research activities of six teams in the CoHERE project, the film takes us to Dresden, Bologna, Bodrum, Tompa on the Hungarian-Serbian border, and to Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Africa, to ask ‘Who is Europe?’. It ends with the sounds of bells ringing across Europe on International Peace Day.
The film premiered on November 23 2018 at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews as part of an international conference organised by CoHERE. Titled “Who is Europe?”, the conference draws on the notion of crisis to reflect on questions of transformation and belonging relating to: dynamics of European identities; strategic uses of European heritages; and the Europeanisation of memory.
