TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS Trailer
A film by Jürgen Ellinghaus / An Icarus Films Release
Watch now: https://icarusfilms.com/if-togo
Shortly before the First World War, the German "Africa explorer" and film director Hans Schomburgk and actress Meg Gehrts embarked on an unprecedented film expedition to West Africa to shoot adventure and documentary films in the exotic setting in the north of the then German colony of Togo. To this day, his films remain virtually unknown in Togo.
More than a century later, another film team travels to the region. With a mobile cinema, they visit the original locations and show Schomburgk’s films to a Togolese audience for the first time. What do the images tell us about that era? What do they leave out? The reactions are manifold. Following the path of Meg Gehrt’s travelogues, the film traces their journey through Togo and asks the question: to whom do the images actually belong? In this way, the light of the film projector shines not only on colonial history, but also on the confrontation with that history in Togo itself. —Nordic Film Days Lübeck
