When his grand­fa­ther died, Jakob Oss­mann was still a child. He never spoke to him about Nazi Ger­many. Now that his­to­ry is repeat­ing itself in a cer­tain way, he returns to his fam­i­ly’s past, and in pur­suit of a con­ver­sa­tion they were never able to have. Through a min­i­mal­is­tic approach that weaved togeth­er found footage, archival pho­tographs, and while blend­ing memory and real­i­ty, Jakob blurs the bound­aries between per­son­al and col­lec­tive his­to­ry. By doing so, he crafts an explo­ration of inter­gen­er­a­tional trauma, shared suf­fer­ing, and the endur­ing need to con­nect across time and culture.

Jakob Oss­mann, orig­i­nal­ly from Stuttgart, Ger­many, has been importing/exporting fears and desires since 2000. He start­ed his stud­ies in Com­put­ing Sci­ence before switch­ing to the arts with a focus on sto­ry­telling through film and photography.